Simondo said...
I do 8km on the Glide 14 Banana in about 60 minutes. 17 Glide cuts it down to about 55 mins. Depends on conditions though... This is flat water, and semi flat ocean, not DW...
iPhone App's with a good water resistant bag is a great way to measure. I have Nike+GPS, but I like the look of "Trails" better. It has heaps more functions, does altitude... does so much more that Nike+GPS. But Nike+GPS is a good easy one to use.... Simple... Dumbed down I guess...
Lacey has good equipment ! But if you can get into 50-55 minutes per 8km, you're doing really well, and 55-60 is quite OK.
it took me a year to better my earlier pb of 51.52 mins. used to get about the same but never better. funny thing is the day i did it wasn't anything special conditions wise. when you start getting it down its really hard to better your pb. sometimes i don't look at the timing and i think i'm killing it and the times aweful. other times it seems like you've struggled the whole way and then the times not to bad. i don't regularly time myself. sometimes you just have to do the distance without flogging yourself.
however, as a training crew in the morning we have been working hard on body position/movement technique so you paddle with your good speed at about 75% effect and not an overtly fast rate
i'm really keen to break 50 mins before i get too old and die and i'll have a crack at it again on the 15'3 when get over the sniffles
cheers
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