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Zoetermeer Training Camp
Last week saw myself, and 18 other members of the Lottery funded World Class Programmes travel to Zoetermeer. It's become a regular camp of late, and whilst the ferry journey across is certainly becoming pretty repetitive, the paddling is anything but. Indeed, it makes an exciting (and often interesting) change to Nottingham, which in comparison, seems rather small and uninspiring.
The week kicked off with a session which bordered on the farcical. Delivery fulls (i.e. 2 runs at race pace), whilst challenging on Zoetermeer at the best of times, took on a whole new level of difficulty with gale force winds making it virtually impossible to do anything correctly. After the first run, where I'd managed to successfully drop-in over 6 or 7 50's, I took the decision to make the session more volume orientated, and focused instead on doing runs down the course (without worrying where the gates were exactly), thereby maximizing water time and getting a physical benefit.
The rest of the week was really very good from a personal perspective. I had a couple of excellent full runs sessions, which, combined with some focused break-out work, made it a very productive, and confidence inspiring week for myself.
Having finally bought an external hard-drive, I'm now in a position to start knocking out a few more videos of week to week training - hopefully they should make for some good viewing.
Here's one I made whilst waiting for the ferry on the way back.
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