Top speed in first run

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Windxtasy
Windxtasy
WA
4019 posts
WA, 4019 posts
4 Oct 2011 9:43am
My top speed for the day often is in the first run, where I'm not comfortable yet, often things aren't balanced and I'm not trying for anything special. I think, oh this is great, I'll be able to improve a lot on that when I am trying harder, but it doesn't happen. Why is this so?
Ian K
Ian K
WA
4170 posts
WA, 4170 posts
4 Oct 2011 10:27am
You have a better grip on a dry boom?
Haggar
Haggar
QLD
1670 posts
QLD, 1670 posts
4 Oct 2011 12:56pm
happens to me sometimes as well, fresher, stronger Maybe start to sail defensively or have bad habits
Waiting4wind
Waiting4wind
NSW
1871 posts
NSW, 1871 posts
4 Oct 2011 8:29pm
Quite often the more you think about it (in later runs) ther more it gets in the way. I also find that all the things I've done in a previous session tend to consolodate after a break and all the good stuff comes out the next time out.
keef
keef
NSW
2016 posts
NSW, 2016 posts
4 Oct 2011 9:43pm
ive often thought the same and put it down to a dry sail and a warm board
decrepit
decrepit
WA
12885 posts
WA, 12885 posts
4 Oct 2011 8:35pm
Sometimes your first run is in the best wind, has happened to me a few times.
But last time I was out, my last run was the fastest, after I'd got everything balanced.
Ian K
Ian K
WA
4170 posts
WA, 4170 posts
4 Oct 2011 8:42pm
That can happen, used to notice in the Canberra easterlies, if you're last out, everyone else has packed up, the water gets flatter.
Windxtasy
Windxtasy
WA
4019 posts
WA, 4019 posts
4 Oct 2011 9:31pm
Sometimes the first run is the best wind because the best of it has already passed by the time I get out, however the first run is so often the best that there must be more to it.
redsurfbus
redsurfbus
304 posts
304 posts
5 Oct 2011 9:58am
I have had similar experience in the past, first, or last run with not much in between.

Since being ill and not knowing if I would ever windsurf again, then recovering and getting out I seem to have relaxed a bit on the water and am not going out to push the limits of my sailing. On 3 out of 5 sessions I have had some of my best speeds (only had 33+ twice before) with 33knots, 32knots and 31 in bugger all wind - wind I would have expected 30 at best.

Perhaps its something to do with just relaxing and not pushing too hard, almost letting the board do its stuff while you just tweak it rather than forcing it. Try it, just sail, no thinking or looking at your GPS. Go with a gust rather than forcing the board with the gust.
mr love
mr love
VIC
2424 posts
VIC, 2424 posts
5 Oct 2011 6:17pm
I think it is the extra weight you carry on the first run, you haven,t had time to cr*p yourself yet.
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