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Re: Miles to paddle in 2016
« Reply #30 on: June 30, 2016, 04:39:47 PM »
You can always paddle 150 miles down a swift flowing river on December 31.



Given your postings of late, I think we should change your name to "SlatchMeme"...
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Re: Miles to paddle in 2016
« Reply #31 on: June 30, 2016, 04:48:57 PM »
Great stuff and great goal but with your efforts and concentration to get yer yaws out (which is great as well) you must now find different routes or extend existing ones or for those 20 July evening paddles you did last year you must now do 23 to get the same mileage. Perhaps a few confused foggy mornings are just what you need.

Good point.  I haven't been able to verify the exact impact of losing the yaw, but I do think I'm getting there faster by travelling in a straight line (duh) and not losing speed due to all of the arcing.  Fortunately, all of my paddles are "out and back" and there seems to be enough of the Pacific left after my usual turn around to extend things a bit.  ;) As it happens, I've actually been on my backup board for the last few weeks during which I was addressing the yaw.  Very curious to get my race board back and have a mirror-smooth speed day to see what kind of speed difference there is--been pretty churned up of late.
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Re: Miles to paddle in 2016
« Reply #32 on: June 30, 2016, 06:28:36 PM »
I confess I haven't been counting, through I'm racking up the miles pretty well now that the wind is blowing in Hood River. I've also mentally committed to paddling similar distances for conditioning when the wind is calm. Today I did fifteen miles.
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Re: Miles to paddle in 2016
« Reply #33 on: September 30, 2016, 11:14:26 AM »
OK people--It's September 30th and end of Q3 so time for a progress check.  This morning's paddle brought me up to 741.5mi for the year.  Pretty close to being back on track to hit my goal of 1,000mi this year.

 I thought that I'd fall way off pace due to about 3 weeks of travel in July/August, but I guess somehow I got my sessions in.  I was 150mi behind pace at Q1.  Closed that gap to 50mi at midyear and now I'm just 8.5 mi behind--pretty easy to make that up.  Hoping Oct stays mild because if I can get 100mi in that should make things pretty easy.

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Re: Miles to paddle in 2016
« Reply #34 on: September 30, 2016, 11:51:04 AM »
After 12 years of consistently paddling every chance I could, this year life keeps throwing curve balls. 

The latest being a trip to the mainland to hang with my son's family near Truckee.  It started off OK.  He planned a camping trip on Emerald Bay, a spectacular appendix to Lake Tahoe.  His son and my Shirley packed in from the highway a few miles above the site and my son brought the lions share of gear in his two man kayak.  I paddled an indestructible SUB to the camp site with my son so we'd have that to play with.  Nice calm conditions for my first fresh water paddle except for occasional boats coming by too close for my liking.  Boat traffic on that lake is like a horde of yahoos.  Anyway we fished that night and caught two just below ten lbs..  We ate well but there were ever present swarms of yellow jackets around our food.  It seemed a peaceful coexistence nuisance where a slight brush away allowed you to take a bite without inhaling a wasp.   He then informed me that it was the biggest outbreak of wasps in years.  I had an allergic past, was nervous, but figured I'd be OK.

The next morning before sunrise we kayaked over to an island in the middle of the bay to take some sunrise pics.  My grandson went SUP and got there before us.  He quickly scrambled up some granite slabs to the top but by the time I was ashore, I couldn't see his path.  It looked a little challenging for my stiff 66 yr old body (first sleep on the ground camp trip in fifteen years) so I began to make my own way.  There was a crevice that had some bushes to grab so I started that way.  Before I knew it, the freaking wasps were covering me and biting.  I scrambled down the hill yelling at my son to come pick me up.  He did but the wasps kept following even out over the water.  He was yelling at me to not tip the kayak over and I was quickly descending into dire straits. 

Initially I seemed to recover somewhat to the many bites but the next day I really disintegrated.  My son's pal boated me out and I was in the Truckee hospital by that next afternoon.  Liver enzymes went through the roof.  My pee was as dark as Newcastle beer.  So it's been over 4 weeks since then. 

This last week I've paddled with my fellow 66 yr old pals Jimmy and Victor four times, although just short 7 milers.  Getting our kicks on route 66.  The first run had me nervous as to whether I could even make it but things are coming together.  Yesterday from Maliko was actually pretty damn good and I kept up.
But so much muscle and aerobic loss.  It's really frightening how quickly it can happen.

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Re: Miles to paddle in 2016
« Reply #35 on: September 30, 2016, 01:56:52 PM »
Wow, Bill--read of your bee encounter on FB but don't think I caught that it involved hospitalization, etc.  There's got to be some allowance for recovery there and you can play the "I'm 66" card all you like but I paddled with you--your little 7milers would have most people calling the coast guard.

You'll get there.
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Re: Miles to paddle in 2016
« Reply #36 on: September 30, 2016, 04:35:44 PM »
I know what you mean Bill. Our Tahoe trip this year had more bugs than I can remember in the 10+ years we've been making the trip. Actually, we saw almost 2 bears a day as well. We've always gone in early August, but because of the kids school year getting shifted we went early July. We attributed the bugs to the earlier vacation time. Unfortunately for you, the bug fest continued. I've been in that little tea house on the Emerald Bay island as well. By the way, Flippy's son Marty says to say hi.. He lives down the street from me.
It's not overhead to me!
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Re: Miles to paddle in 2016
« Reply #37 on: September 30, 2016, 08:26:06 PM »
Thanx Talldude for Marty.  I think as soon as they get a cool spell those critters will go into dormancy.  Pretty wild getting taken down by bugs.

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Re: Miles to paddle in 2016
« Reply #38 on: September 30, 2016, 10:02:16 PM »
Wow. That does sound scary. Being miles from anywhere as well. Glad that you are okay Headmount.

I was stung as a child so many times on my face my eyes swelled shut and I could not see for several hours... How did this happen? Because a friend and I decided it was a good idea to throw stones at a wasps nest... and all was fun until they decided enough was enough and the hive emptied en-masse in a huge swarm... and whilst my friend ran, I ended up standing still... Didn't do that again..

I'm a little behind in my 1,000km goal this year, but catching up fast..


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Re: Miles to paddle in 2016
« Reply #39 on: October 02, 2016, 04:55:50 AM »
My friend Garmin counts for me...

First 9 months 2016:
107 sessions,  471 mi,   

Not bad for a recovering couch potato. btw:  I cheated, SurfSki and SU combined.

Next year my full time job will be paddling, so double or more for 2017.   

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Re: Miles to paddle in 2016
« Reply #40 on: October 02, 2016, 07:27:54 AM »
I'm at 220km (139mi) so far,  so will probably match my last year of 200 miles.   5.18mph average (with some current), also about the same as last year.  As I get near 60 yr old, and my friends are having joint replacements left and right,  I'll take the same result year to year.

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Re: Miles to paddle in 2016
« Reply #41 on: October 02, 2016, 09:35:08 PM »
I'm up to 85miles  - for me that's great :D

Rough year for wasps up here too. Not so many mosquitoes so that was nice :D

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Re: Miles to paddle in 2016
« Reply #42 on: October 02, 2016, 11:24:29 PM »
I'm at 808 km logged and some km unlogged. So it could be now 850 km.
And some of them was really action ;-)

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Re: Miles to paddle in 2016
« Reply #43 on: October 12, 2016, 11:40:44 PM »
Year Totals: SUP(flatwater)   Activities: 153     Distance: 1.334,63km (828miles)     Time: 172:16:57       Calories: 95.706C 

Result... 9,6km/h (6,0m/h) average speed at lake race 16km (10miles), no significant wind help/resistance
 
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Re: Miles to paddle in 2016
« Reply #44 on: October 13, 2016, 12:19:00 PM »
Logging some serious miles, Zoners!  Very envious of some of the speeds out there because my average is 4.3mph.  Some of this is probably due to my daily paddles being open ocean--there's almost always some chop to contend with.  I've also increased my avg distance to almost 6mi and I notice I'm not able to sustain speed that well--the rate on my tracker drops off pretty significantly, especially if I'm going against wind and chop.

Additionally, I'm probably just plain slow.

I've dreamed about being to average 6mph (or even 5.5).  That would translate into a lot more miles in a year.
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