Theoretical

Most of my blog posts since about December have been about how much exercise I haven’t done, with a sub plot that I intend to get out and do more the coming week, the plot twist being that I don’t do anything…. This is another similar tale I’m afraid.

It is sometimes surprising how quickly you can lose your fitness, I find myself in this surprisingly unfit place because I have been pretty lazy since 2016 started. I’ve run around in my trainers a bit but nothing exceptional. I have looked at my bike a couple of times, I’ve ordered some sports gear (my triathlon wetsuit turned up about 20 minutes ago), and I have booked myself onto a few events. Looking at that list of achievements I can safely say that so far my exercise has been theoretical.



Saying that, this weekend saw me and my (postposed to 2017) DW partner heading out to the canal in our K1’s for no reason other than to see how wobbly her new wobble factor 6 boat really was, I took out my lime green racing machine (wf 4) so we were at least as likely to fall in as each other. Without wanting to spoil the plot… The canal is freezing cold. In my defence, I was fiddling with the camera mount on my boat when I fell in. Fortunately I was behind my partner so she didn’t film my rather stupid capsize. Here's the video she put together.

Today I am feeling it though. My kayaking muscles have been out of action for only a couple of months and suddenly a short 6km kayak is punishing me. I keep telling myself that it’s still early in the season and I don’t need to really push myself yet but I think I am going to have to do something now. On that note, I’m off for a run.