Ive never really written any sort of blog; the closest ive probably come is writing a company newsletter with colleagues about our outdoorsantics whilst I lived in Scotland. Although this wasnt really the pinacle of literary heights and consisted mostly of drinking too much, forgetting equipment, high aspirations and low performance- This probably wont be much different.
Anyhow, moving away from the norm of 200 character captions littered with emojis and dross. I thought it would be a good moment to just put pen to paper or finger to plastic and just blast out some words- im not even sure what im going to write about.
Although, I do realise that like many people I’m sat on a decade or so of outdoors anecdotal antics that may be mildly amusing or at a stretch useful to others that want to do similar things. However theres a lot to be said for learning from your mistakes and bloodymindedness.
In 6 months ill be racing the coast 2 coast in New Zealand, a multisport race where the name explains the route… so I may well keep a bit of a training blog of my antics. I must say I’m not the most structured types when it comes to training. I just have a very good idea of what works for me, I like type 2 fun and I dont mind shite weather- which generally works quite well for these sort of events. On top of that I have too many sports I pursue which means its hardwork to stay at a high level but on the plus side keeps things balanced training wise.
But like everything there is a tendancy to steer towards the things you prefer with training (ie avoid weaknesses), so I’ll do my best to perhaps write about forever trying to overcome that. Last weekend I actually competed in a local 50km kayak race around Copenhagen- which was a fantastic grass roots type event which came with the usual gang of enthusiastic grounded volunteers and competitors. It did serve as a bit of a wake up call to my paddling muscles after very little recent kayaking and 3 weeks of training; But im happy with 5th place and it was a great way of seeing the city. Which is perhaps one of the most well thought out livable Urban places ive ever seen.
Having not ever written a blog I can see the danger of not really knowing when to wrap things up, being concise and writing in a logical consistent manner etc etc. I should probably save something for future posts anyhow, rather than being too much of a one hit wonder.
Until the next instalment, cheerio. Giles
