keeners week 1
Rory O' Reilly here. I'm quite a bit away from home these days as usually i live in Dublin, Ireland. I arrived here in ottawa on monday evening and have had 3 days of coaching so far and it has been awesome!
As keeners, we live in, aptly named, keener ville. It's a pretty cool place to be. We sleep in log cabins and then there's the thunder dome. That's where we hang out, eat, get briefed etc. Each morning we get woken up by our keener mom jackie at 7.30. We do a bit of a run and some push ups and stretching before breakfast, which we usually make ourselves. A good start to the day. Then our coaches arrive and we head out on the water. Stephen usually spends a few minutes warming up with up us. Then we do whats on our schedule for the day. It might be a race, competition, general freestyle or running the river. On weekends we can paddle as we wish so i'm really looking forward to that.
Today was "big water beat down thursday". This was so much fun! We all paddled through this pretty big hole called phil's hole that's at the top of the rapid beside keener ville. and basically the person who gets the biggest beat down wins. I came second and was mighty proud of my short but sweet monster thrashing!
Personally my goals are tyo improve on flatwater and to bring my wave paddling to a new level. Blunts and backstabs are definitely two moves i would like to have dialled in when i leave but its taking a while to get used to the new features here.
anyways thats my blog, i'll be back.
happy paddling! :)