After significant talk and some preliminary training the Ocean Beach SLSC Honeymooners are officially entered in the 2011 Coolangatta gold! Our team is: Mark Davis (captain; swimmer), Richard Grimmond (Ski), Katie Dixon (Run), and me (Aaron Camp; Board). We had a blast attempting to come up with a name, and in the end we paid tribute to the fact that two of our team members (Katie and I) will in fact be on their honeymoon for the event!
Training for day one:
6:30 am, dreadful windy, choppy, drizzly conditions. As a team we paddled around St Huberst Island (5K), with Katie and I on boards, and Mark and Grimmo on skis. Despite the conditions we had a pretty solid hit out, finishing the 5K in 50 mins. We followed the paddle with a set of hill sprints (grimmo swam a 2.5k instead)- all good except for fighting off hypothermia!
We have adopted the motivational mantra, "set yourself on fire"! We have also decided that when others decline to train due to conditions, this is when we will train hardest- An approach favoured by Lance Armstrong.
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