Prickly Pear is a tiny island just upwind from the Sunsail Centre and for a day it felt like ours. It’s been a fantastic week; everyone’s been having a fantastic time, though it has officially aged Granddad. The week ended with his birthday, not that I got to see much of it thanks to a brother in-law, two brothers and the rum bar. Always said I wasn’t the drinker in the family.
The boys play a lot of cricket at home and with the 20/20 being played at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium they wanted to see a few balls go down the wicket. With some big names in cricket being banded around it gave them that extra interest to go, but it back at Sunsail that they finally got to see the big name himself, Sir Vivian Richards.
The weather’s been a bit fickle this week, I only managed to windsurf a couple of days but for the first time it didn’t really matter. Even when the heavens opened it still didn’t dampen our spirits, there’s still plenty to do. The lack of sun towards the end of the week did nothing to lower the temperature, though I welcomed the shade as awoke with the worst hangover I’ve had in years.
Everything was going fine until we realised it was Granddads birthday, with the time difference it was already tomorrow back home. After the usual toasts everyone headed for bed, until there was just the four of us left, Brother in-law David and Brother Robert and Mark. Think it must have been about this time when it all went wrong for me, I shouldn’t have tried to keep up.
If it wasn’t for the hangover this trip has been great for my speed. With the record attempt at Southend no far away I’ve given the year a bit of thought to see where I can get that extra bit of speed. To make sense of it I had to go back to last year before I started my diet. Though its been great to shed some kilos, it hasn’t been good for my speed.
The extra weight was like a weigh jacket, I was used to sailing with it, but without it I lacked some power. It isn’t that I need to put the weight back on, but change my training to replace weight with strength. All my training has just been about loosing weight, but I think that has to change to resistance training.
Sunsail have a fantastic gym for a hotel, and since we arrived I’ve been in there as six every morning. That’s been helped with some family rivalry from Mark; thankfully he caved in the morning before my hangover. Apart from ensuring the indulgences for the week don’t affect the waistline, I’ve got into it and will push in this direction for the rest of the year, at least I’ll find out which sort of training is best for me.
