Green Race 2018 - Chris Wing

Описание: I raced to a PB of 4:48 after racing a 5:02 in 2016. I was pretty disappointed in 2016 as I trained pretty extensively and was surprised at how well I did in 2018 despite really only putting in 8 days of focused practice on the water.

I did a fair bit of coaching and consulting through this Green Race season so my mind was definitely on it. I also carried over quite a bit of residual from my 2016 training.

The mental game is what I truly struggled with in my two previous races and I wanted to go into this race not really caring, but underneath I felt I could beat my previous time if I just kept the focus on fun and positive affirmation.

The top of the course is what I would really like to become more confident and faster on, but it certainly is the lonliest part of the course with you and all of your thoughts. I did a lot of talking to myself and even still it was hard to get my heart rate down. Two things I remained hyper-focused on was breathing and getting a nice tilt forward. I did know that these boats paddle better up at speed as opposed to floating, so I did stay focus on keeping effort to at least that minimum as well.

Overall, I'm stoked and really looking forward on taking away some new found knowledge and confidence to several new start lines in 2019!