Today was our 8.5km time trial. We do this once in a while to gauge our speed endurance. My time was 43:29 average speed 11.8 km/hour. Not terrible. Rich went easy in the K1 and yelled at me the whole way. This was good cause my GPS battery went dead and I had to go hard without a speed in front of me...

On the course today alone. All pieces under 10'. Rest 2 minutes between.

Cliff and Barry and Pat and I had a super double ski grind today. 24km..broken into some 15' and 10' and 5' pieces..ocean and bay.

Phillipe is gone to the Carribean to race so Christina and I went double to keep pushing Patrick. 2 x 10' rest 2', 3 x5' rest 2' and 3 x 2' rest 1 minute.
We killed him on every piece. Ok, love that. Good luck to Eva in Hawaii for the OC 6 Molokai. And Noah in Maui, we miss you!

Rich and I pumped out 6 x 1000m on 7' (thats about 2' rest with a 5' piece) times were slow with weed and current/wind opposites..but still a hard grinder.

Phillipe, Pat, Christina, KC and I did a good 20km in the ocean. no real wind, but some wierd bumps...beautiful day in Newport.

Since Phillip Bocarra has moved here (6 x Olympian and Friend) we are working out like crazy. Pat is getting pushed every work out and I am getting dropped of the wake in the first 30" of every piece. For sure it will make Patrick faster, but its just making me mad. I was getting comfortable on big Pats wash and he always was kind to let me sit there for at least half the work out. Now its blast off 13 km and over even if its a long piece, first piece or warm up. Today was 1 x5, 2 x4, 3 x3, 4 x 2, 5 x 1 and 6 x 30". Pat and Phillipe grinded the whole thing. I lasted to the 3 minutes pieces and sulked home with too much lactic acid to hold the paddle. Fun.

5' pieces in the ocean with Phillipe and Patrick..gorgeous warm day, warm ocean and some time to paddle. Kids all at school..7th grade, 5th grade and preschool...

ok that's some serious mileage...all training for the Phatwater in Mississippi Oct 10....Cliff and Rich went double as well and Phillipe went single out to the OC 6s racing back from Catalina..what a fun paddle.

slow and steady today

Great workout today with Rich and Phillepe...3 x lido laps (4km) and then another 5km....training for Phatwater in Mississippi in 4 weeks. 42 miles on the River.