The PSK Hub – Performance Sea Paddling Stuff
As I’ve said before, the Puffin TT is a bit of a bugger. 18 years of it now and it still hurts, always has. And in a way that is the point of it. Why? Well the hurting bit is not about some masochistic tendancy, put simplistically it means you are pushing your limits, and that …
Climbing Snowdonia. Like many people, I’ve been chasing the clock for years, decades even. The numbers tells it how it is, there are no excuses. And yet, there is a gap in the tangibility somehow. One run you are 15 secs up, the next 15 down. It ebbs and flows, without a distinct conclusion. But …
It wasn’t such a good day for surf; however you can still get something useful from it, and have a bit of fun. So here it was time to ‘paddle a few squares’: Paddle out through – working break timings and looking for gaps, Then paddle across just on the edge of ‘the break’ – …
It looks like a bunch of squiggles on the GPS track, but it is actually 4 runs of the Killer 8s session. The original Killer Islands sess is a simple one, start on either Bangor shore or Anglesey shore, round the island (Gored Goch – GG) and return to the start point – paddle hard …
Off to the Skerries once again, and why not? The sun is out after all. The norm is for a left turn out of Cemlyn Bay, and go with the flow until you hit something. Hopefully before Ireland. But today we want a little more from the day. We are going to practice a little …
The Puffin TT is a bit of a bastard really. It hurts. It is 3 hrs and 30 km of uncomfortable. It starts off nicely, promising good views, good training and a good challenge. But of course it saves up the worst bits for the end. You start from Menai Bridge with the tide running …
This was a training session we paddled at Broadford on the Isle of Skye as we waited for a gap in the weather for my Skye Circumnav attempt in 2021. As the wind was determined not to give us a break, we thought we might as well get into the spirit of things – it …
Back on the canal today, for one of the sessions I enjoy – Bridge Fa(h)rts. This stretch of the Lancaster Canal lends itself nicely to this session – basically paddle a mixed intervals session, using the gaps between the bridges to dictate the work/rest periods. So the format here: Paddle out for an extended 30′ …
The Rhoscolyn Beacon Sess. Last night we took the weekly group session out of the Menai Strait and headed for Rhoscolyn Beacon. The Beacon sessions are always a firm favourite: a change of scenery, different flow patterns and different courses of course. A change is as good as a rest as they say. Though I …
Three? Three?? This week the group session returned to The Swellies. We had plenty of sunshine and were also joined by Mike Conroy ‘fresh’ from his Anglesey Circumnav only a few days prior. The gentle flow tempted ‘us’* into a Brittania Bridge TT sess. Easy peasy Start/finsh at Price’s Point with 2 turn points: Brittania …