{"id":793,"date":"2018-06-09T14:03:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T13:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/?p=793"},"modified":"2020-07-02T14:45:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T13:45:29","slug":"race-preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/race-preparations\/","title":{"rendered":"Race Preparations"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Andy Raspin<\/h4>\n

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Previously Andy was a GB Team slalom paddler, gaining medals at World and European Championship level. He has also acted as a coach for the Canoe Wales Slalom Squad.<\/em><\/p>\n

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More than 1 month to go…<\/h5>\n
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    • Physical Review<\/strong> – Am I where I want to be?<\/li>\n
    • Technical Review<\/strong> – Are all my moves\/techniques working for me?<\/li>\n
    • Mental Review<\/strong> – Getting in the correct head space, with my progress and performances.<\/li>\n
    • Venue Review<\/strong> – Make sure to practice as many moves as possible at race sites.<\/li>\n
    • Make sure Race Entries have been sent and accepted.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      1 Month to go…<\/h5>\n
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      • Equipment Choices<\/strong> made and happy with choices. (Boat, paddles, clothing etc.)<\/li>\n
      • Boat<\/strong> should meet regulations and be in good working order.<\/li>\n
      • Accommodation<\/strong> arrangements made for race weekends.<\/li>\n
      • Start to practice your Race Preparations<\/strong>, in pre-races and also in training with Delivery Fulls<\/em>.<\/li>\n
      • Start to Taper<\/strong> your training.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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        2\/3 Weeks to go…<\/h5>\n
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        • Stop reviewing<\/strong> your progress, work with what you have and deliver to the best of your ability.<\/li>\n
        • Travel<\/strong> arrangement to races arranged.<\/li>\n
        • Start to practice Course\u00a0<\/strong>Visualisation<\/b>\u00a0of the site you will be racing at. Also be able to watch videos for specific sites.<\/li>\n
        • Pre-plan Solutions<\/strong> to possible race-day problems, be prepared for some eventualities eg. Race running late, paddles damaged during warm-up etc.<\/li>\n
        • Get a Start List<\/strong> – To plan The Day (course walks, time to change etc).<\/li>\n
        • Tapering<\/strong> continued.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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            1 Week to go…<\/h5>\n
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            • Race-Day Food<\/strong> organised and chosen, food you like and food that works for you.<\/li>\n
            • Plan Warm-Up<\/strong> – site dependent, how long, type of exercises and the location of your warm-up.<\/li>\n
            • Socialising and Relaxation<\/strong> in the run-up can be a good way to de-stress.<\/li>\n
            • Good Sleep<\/strong> for the whole week running up to the race, try to avoid late nights.<\/li>\n
            • Feel Good<\/strong> in yourself, physically, mentally and emotionally.<\/li>\n
            • Be Ready To Race!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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              Andy Raspin
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              by Andy Raspin<\/p>\n

              Previously Andy was a GB Team slalom paddler, gaining medals at World and European Championship level. He has also acted as a coach for the Canoe Wales Slalom Squad. Here he takes a look at race preparation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-performance-paddling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3383,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/3383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}