Next week, on Monday or Wednesday depending on which day you signed up for, will be your first day of Upper Yough Training! Here is an overview of the program.
Slalom: Mondays and Wednesdays are slalom workouts, designed to practice strokes, speed, and a bunch of rolling- all things you will need for the Upper Yough. We meet at 6 pm at the Feeder Canal. Remember that the Clara Barton Pkwy is only open to traffic leaving the city at that time. If you are coming from the other direction you may want to park in Brookmont and walk over. Please let me know if you have questions about directions. Pablo and Tom will be teaching on alternate weeks. You should bring a long, maneuverable boat if you have one. Slalom boats are great, too. If you can't make a session and need to attend the other weeknight, no problem. Please try to let us know ahead of time.
Saturdays: for these workouts, bring your creek boat. Currently, we are unable to secure water at Dickerson so will plan to have training on the Potomac, 9-11 am, with a couple trips added in. That will change if Dickerson is running. For the first Saturday, 5/9, plan to meet Tom for several Little Falls laps at Lock 6 at 9 am. On May 30th we will be heading to the Savage and June 20th we are going to the Lower Yough unless you are on the trip to the Upper.
Upper Yough Trip dates: We have made some changes and additions to the Upper Yough trip dates. They are now 6/20, 6/27, 7/18, 7/25 (The Great Falls Race is now 7/11). Tom and Pablo will talk to you individually about whether you are ready to attend the trip the week before. Some of you have told me which dates work best for you- let me know if anything changes. The trips are limited to 8 people at a time. We will still have Upper Yough Training on Saturday for those not going.
See you guys next week!
Ashley McEwan
Liquid Adventures Office
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