Summer '09, starting out on the bay, I counted my reps. I did 30 paddle strokes before I had to rest. That's total of both arms, which is only 15 each. I ain't going nowhere with that. I did a few sets. We had fun floating and resting. It was still beautiful Summer on the water.
By the end of the summer I was up to 120 reps and 5 sets.
This year, 2020, I started out with 60 reps and worked up to 200 reps and the total in just over an hour was 1500 paddle strokes.
I worked up to that over 8 weeks straight, from 2 times a week up to a stretch of 9 days in a row.
I set goals of markers for channels in the water. The one I set that I liked because it was a challenge was a 5 miles per hour float out in the bay that looked pretty far away. That took 600 reps out.
Some days I was fighting tides, currents, white caps, and wind so it was a good workout.
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This Summer, 2010, had an amazing run of clear days and low humidity. This is never the weather here, or should I say climate. That's how different it was. It is still going, btw, and an overcast day gets me down, we had 6 in a row this September and it was really getting to me. But then back to more clear days in long series, it's amazing, but very strange.
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