The World Championships in Costa Rica are approaching rapidly now, focusing our minds on both equipment and training. Finally, we seem to be getting there with the equipment, partly thanks to some good sponsorship deals! We now have fancy team clothes, supplied by Trimtex, Petzl Meteor III+ helmets from the Norwegian company Varri, and the world’s lightest racing harnesses and belaying devices from Wendy’s brother (early Christmas presents!).
We picked up our latest acquisition from West System in Oslo on Friday: two WindPaddle kayak sails! They have already been tested… in the safety of the lounge!
Here’s Jo Inge in our nice kit testing a sail on our Paddlelite. Of course, there wasn’t much wind in the lounge, so he didn’t get up much speed on that particular training session.
The PaddleLite is a result of sponsorship from Sportsmaster. Their logo is “Train indoors to be good outdoors”, which is certainly what we are aiming for! It’s pretty cold in Norway now, and dark by 5pm, so paddling indoors is a luxury that is really helpful for improving our strength for Costa Rica. Three weeks left…
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