Well, yesterday's temperature was a blamy 86 F at about what noon? So we had a great day for dragon boat practice. We started the afternoon/evening out with some fun warmups that included:
- suicide runs (i did burpees instead-- on account of not wanting to run in keens)
- squats - 30?
- oblique planks? (the ones with pushups in between)- 20 each side
- dips - 20
- oblique reverse lunges
Then we went out on the water for about an hour -- close to 1 full boat of people showed up which is nice so early in the season. First we did about 10 mins of paddling warmup which consisted of 50-75-100% intensity drills up and down the cove. Then we worked on some rotation drills -- which apparently i still cant do right *whines* i keep going up and down not front and back and i cant feel myself doing it which is part of the problem. We did some fun pyramids (100% for 30 strokes, 10 strokes of rest repeat x6) not quite sure how this is a pyramid i guess but its more of a intensity drill *shrug* it was billed as a pyramid. We repeated that drill quite a bit ( i believe 4 instances at differing intensities just for fun) Then we practiced some start pulls to get the boat up and basically "surfing" above the wake. I still need to work on feathering because the poor coach that was sitting in front of me was splashed SO much :( So i guess at some point probably this weekend i'll go to the boat and practice early in the wee hours of the AM before practice so that i can get the stroke better.. and maybe actually right for once?
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