Post your training paddles

[Alan Gage]

Alan, what's an AGX?? Looks like a really cool canoe.

Back in the day I had a couple J-boats I didn't trust myself to keep upright and I also had a great little dog that loved to paddle and I felt guilty every time I took the j-boats out for training paddles. I wanted something in between a fast tripper and a USCA C1 and couldn't find anything that fit the bill so I set out to design and built one. Worked out quite well and is a nice boat to paddle. I gave it some rocker so it would be more friendly on the river and flared the gunwales forward of the paddling position to give me dog room to sit. I think it would make a great MR340 hull as it's quite fast but much more relaxing to paddle. I was out of racing before I could put that to the test though.

Alan

 

[zehyani]

I would love to see the AGX sometime. I like light fast solos.

 

[Alan Gage]

I would love to see the AGX sometime. I like light fast solos.

I doubt I'll ever be traveling with it in the future but anytime you want to come down to Estherville you're welcome to try it out.

Alan

 

[Tryin']

I would love to see the AGX sometime. I like light fast solos.

Here is the build thread, if you want some more background.

X canoe build

I don't know what to call it yet. I might call it a POS once it hits the water. Trying my hand at designing my own canoe. It's meant to be a workout/racing boat and not much else but more user friendly than something like C1 marathon. Oh yeah, and the dog will be able to fit in the bow as well...

www.canoetripping.net

 

[zehyani]

thank you. I will take a look at it.
Alan, I will contact you next spring and try to come down your way.

zehyani

 

[chrisrezac]

Went out for a harder effort with a faster boat tonight. Another beautiful evening and not another boat on the lake. Time after work is getting really short though. It was pretty much dark by the time I got off the water.

6 mile paddle
5.5 mph average speed
6.5 mph max
121 average heart rate
132 max heart rate
68 strokes/minute average
592 calories burned

I feel like my atrophied paddling muscles are holding me back. They quickly fatigue and don't allow me to get the heart rate up higher. We'll see if I can get them built up at all before the cold weather and darkness puts a halt to the paddling season.

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That's a pretty boat Alan. It looks like it was made to move swiftly by a swift-moving maker.

 

[Tryin']

Did two 15 minute intervals today. (Plus a little max-effort sprint at the end, not recorded)

The goal was to hold 60spm for 15min and hold 40spm for 15min

Potentially interesting bio-efficiency correlation. I need to get my fitness way up before I start drawing conclusions, but at my current level, it cost me 360 heartbeats to go 394 meters. I understand that it is way deeper than that, but I was surprised at the narrowness of the HR gap compared to perceived cardiopulmonary exertion.