Bay Minette Creek 10 mi.
Saturday, January 14, 2006 brint.adams@us.army.mil
A cold front blew in last night, leaving this morning with clear sunny skies, but cool temps. Roland and I decided to go for an afternoon paddle to avoid freezing our hands again this weekend. So, we met at the Bromley Bridge at 1:00 PM, where the water was very low, but navigable and rising. The temperature was 50 degrees and the wind was still hanging around and even affected us on the protected creek.
Roland was determined to turn around his finish outcome today, and started out fast to our five mile turnaround. Once we got past the first mile, where the creek opens up a little, the wind started to play havoc with both of us, as I continued to follow closely behind. Finally, when we got into mile four and five, I was able to pull even and on the long straightaway down to Buzbee's, was even able to pull ahead for just a little while. Once under the Hwy 225 bridge, with only about 500 meters to the turnaround, Roland pulled even again, and we made the turn together.
Our mile splits on the way down were 9:42, 9:11, 9:19, 9:33 and 9:33 again. On the way back upstream, we were basically heading into the wind in the first two miles, trying to find anyplace we could, to get out of it. Our splits on the return were 9:53, 9:55, 10:16, 10:02 and 10:33.
Once we hit two miles to go, Roland found another gear and started to pull away from me and ended up finishing about 30 meters ahead. The overall time of 1:38:03 at 6.1 mph, was not great, especially compared to last week's 12 mile paddle on the same course. But, taking the wind factor into consideration, we were both happy with the effort and are ready for next weekend's race.
A cold front blew in last night, leaving this morning with clear sunny skies, but cool temps. Roland and I decided to go for an afternoon paddle to avoid freezing our hands again this weekend. So, we met at the Bromley Bridge at 1:00 PM, where the water was very low, but navigable and rising. The temperature was 50 degrees and the wind was still hanging around and even affected us on the protected creek.
Roland was determined to turn around his finish outcome today, and started out fast to our five mile turnaround. Once we got past the first mile, where the creek opens up a little, the wind started to play havoc with both of us, as I continued to follow closely behind. Finally, when we got into mile four and five, I was able to pull even and on the long straightaway down to Buzbee's, was even able to pull ahead for just a little while. Once under the Hwy 225 bridge, with only about 500 meters to the turnaround, Roland pulled even again, and we made the turn together.
Our mile splits on the way down were 9:42, 9:11, 9:19, 9:33 and 9:33 again. On the way back upstream, we were basically heading into the wind in the first two miles, trying to find anyplace we could, to get out of it. Our splits on the return were 9:53, 9:55, 10:16, 10:02 and 10:33.
Once we hit two miles to go, Roland found another gear and started to pull away from me and ended up finishing about 30 meters ahead. The overall time of 1:38:03 at 6.1 mph, was not great, especially compared to last week's 12 mile paddle on the same course. But, taking the wind factor into consideration, we were both happy with the effort and are ready for next weekend's race.
posted by brint @ 5:05 PM
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