Saturday, July 31, 2010

Summer Days

The temperature is rising daily in OKC and our training is heating up in preparation for the 2010 US Canoe/kayak national championships which will be hosted by the Chesapeake Boathouse in OKC.
After getting back from a month of training and racing in the northeast, I felt like my body was done. Each practice was miserable and my boat speed was flat, I really couldn't understand what was happening with my body. After 2.5weeks of this my mental state was destroyed and I thought I would never go fast again, then we started doing faster shorter pieces at high intensity, and my body started responding and my boat speed shot up to the fastest I have ever been. This experience taught me the importance of training cycles and the use of different intensities and workout volume. I knew it intuitively but feeling the dramatic changes in my own body hit it home.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

LPI regatta

What a great long weekend in Lake Placid!
Day 1
The lake Placid International regatta started off with a bang at 8am on Friday, first up was the senior women 500m heats. I had a solid race winning my heat which put me in the finals in a prime lane. A few hours later I raced to a close 3rd place finish in the SrWK1 500m final, next up was K2 we had a great 400m in the lead dropping to 4th after being caught off balance by the wind and needing to brace. At the end of the day Jen Burke, myself, Ann Blanchard and Beata Cseske teamed up for a K4 which place a close second to the Canadian team after a babble in the last 100m.
Day 2
200m's is an awful short race for a marathon paddler but I figured i would give it a shoot! I ended up just out of the medals in the K1 SrW 200m final by a few 100th of a sec!