Today was a high gravity day. We did about 15 kilometres in the kayak. Earlier in the week, when I was planning my training schedule (wait, what, you don’t plan your training? Are you training or exercising?) Tuesday looked like a good day for a downwinder, but the forecast flopped about and in the end, the BOM (which just spent somewhere in the vicinity of $100 million to refurbish their web-site – WTAF) forecast seemed to indicate northwesterly winds, not northeasterly winds. So, we decided we would just go out and do a mid-distance paddle, about 20 kilometres or what we could do in three hours.
We did 15 kilometres. I was really fatigued. Was it poor sleep or the 60 squats (and etcetera) I had done the day before? Who knows, probably a bit of both, but I felt like I was paddling upstream through molasses. We got out to North Head where a brisk northerly was blowing but not much coming into the bay. Lumpy conditions though with a decent long period swell running through.
Back in the early days when I could handle lots of heavy training I would just push through, but I’ve still got my long paddle day to do this week and, although I haven’t learnt much over the years, I have learnt that it’s more important to be able to train tomorrow than it is to incur such fatigue that you need three days rest.
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