Apalachee River to Causeway 2005 XLIX
Thursday, July 14, 2005 brint.adams@us.army.mil
The weather was a little iffy as I headed home in a steady rain all the way from my office. But, by the time I met Roland at Riverdocs at 5:00 PM, the rain stopped and it was still a hot and humid 82 degrees, cloudy, no wind, water level down and still dropping.
Roland took off a few seconds ahead, which gave me something to focus on as we raced past the restaurants to the Apalachee in 6:56. On the return, I caught Roland and we passed the parking lot again together in 15:22. Since it had just finished raining, there were no fishermen or boats out and we had the bay to ourselves. There was a bit of a chop which seemed to slow us down a little, as we cruised into the bridge turn in 32:21.
The return back was classic as Roland took off ahead of me again. As we approached the Causeway, he cut outside of the buoys and was slowed down a little in the shallow water and underwater grass. Once he got back over into the boat channel, I was gone and never looked back. We finished in 50:15 for a 10:15/mile pace. As we pulled back in to the boat launch area, our good ol' gator buddy was there waiting for us. He barely dropped below the surface as we passed by and then popped back up again about 20 meters away, to watch us load our boats.
The weather was a little iffy as I headed home in a steady rain all the way from my office. But, by the time I met Roland at Riverdocs at 5:00 PM, the rain stopped and it was still a hot and humid 82 degrees, cloudy, no wind, water level down and still dropping.
Roland took off a few seconds ahead, which gave me something to focus on as we raced past the restaurants to the Apalachee in 6:56. On the return, I caught Roland and we passed the parking lot again together in 15:22. Since it had just finished raining, there were no fishermen or boats out and we had the bay to ourselves. There was a bit of a chop which seemed to slow us down a little, as we cruised into the bridge turn in 32:21.
The return back was classic as Roland took off ahead of me again. As we approached the Causeway, he cut outside of the buoys and was slowed down a little in the shallow water and underwater grass. Once he got back over into the boat channel, I was gone and never looked back. We finished in 50:15 for a 10:15/mile pace. As we pulled back in to the boat launch area, our good ol' gator buddy was there waiting for us. He barely dropped below the surface as we passed by and then popped back up again about 20 meters away, to watch us load our boats.
posted by brint @ 8:43 PM
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