Adam Burgess blog | January 2012

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

The last month has been really exciting, lots going on. The ‘Strength Block’ has come to an end and the ‘Speed Block’ is now well underway, I feel like I’ve made my full adjustment to wearing the i-GO lenses to improve my sight, and I’ve made my move to London so I can train on the Olympic course more!

In this current block of training all of my physical sessions are just geared around going FAST and making the boat get up to speed quickly from a standing start. From the data we have of recorded 20m sprint times I’ve matched the record and become one of the very few C1 paddlers to reach a sub 7 second time, so already the speed work we’re doing is paying off!

I’ve continued to wear my overnight lenses to correct my short sightedness and now I think I’ve made the full adaption which is great. Being able to see properly for all of my sessions has been great, especially with trying to learn the subtleties of the Olympic courses waves and other features.

I’ve made a semi move to London so now I’m operating out of a base there and a base in Nottingham. My coaching and support services still remain predominantly in Nottingham which means I do need to be here still most weeks but with a room in London as well now I will be spending the majority of my time down there.

Training in London has been great, I’m really enjoying every second I’m spending on that course and I’m finding that the hard physical work I’ve put in already  this winter has really paid off and I’m finding that I can really just focus on the technical element of paddling there and just learning the place inside out.