{"id":1801,"date":"2013-07-30T14:17:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T21:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/o2fitness.net\/o2\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2013-07-30T14:17:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T21:17:01","slug":"paddling-predicament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/paddling-predicament\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddling Predicament"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2013_jam_from_the_dam_prefo_546_lowres\"<\/a>Below a blog by Jay Wild, elite international paddle board and outrigger canoe competitor, owner of Watermans Landing<\/a>\u00a0and o2fitness athlete.<\/p>\n

Last September I stopped using a coach for the first time in three years and while I was nervous to embark on a training program on my own I was also excited to put what I have learned to the test. \u00a0After a winter of paddling my OC1, some strength training with the crew at\u00a0Crossfit Avalanche<\/a>\u00a0 and lots of skate skiing I felt that I was ready to put a program together leading into the stand up paddle racing season.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the Lake Tahoe season was transitioning from Winter to Spring and I was seeing my time for training going into preparing Watermans Landing\u00a0for a busy summer. I found that every time I sat down to develop a training program leading into a specific race I would instead work on things for Watermans Landing, telling myself that I would get to the training stuff later.<\/p>\n

As the weeks continued to pass I was still paddling but with no specific program and was really starting to question where this racing season was going to go. That was a scary feeling, being that the previous four years was totally outlined ahead of time with specific races and training goals. At one point I was thinking that I was done racing, there was too much stress and I was putting so much pressure on myself that paddling wasn\u2019t fun anymore.<\/p>\n

After focusing on work for a couple of weeks I was starting to miss training and when I sat down to figure out my next race and a program for training I realized that I needed help. Thats when I contacted my friend Julie Young with\u00a0O2Fitness<\/a>\u00a0and explained my dilemma. \u00a0Julie has only paddled a couple of times but her knowledge of training is amazing and I felt as though we could work together on a training program, rather than her just writing it up and me following. She is open to discuss how a paddler can train different than a cyclist, runner or triathlete. I am just a couple weeks into training with Julie and I am very happy with the communication and training program.<\/p>\n

I am excited to race again but also understanding that I do not have the luxury of just training and racing. I have a family to support and two businesses to run. Luckily I have an amazing wife and a great support crew that will help me achieve my goals. Thanks and happy paddling!!<\/p>\n

After just a few weeks on the o2fitness training plan I was able to come out with a win at the Jam from the Damn race here in Tahoe and take the overall points lead from Rob Rojas in the O\u2019neill Tahoe Cup series!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Below a blog by Jay Wild, elite international paddle board and outrigger canoe competitor, owner of Watermans Landing\u00a0and o2fitness athlete. Last September I stopped using a coach for the first time in three years and while I was nervous to embark on a training program on my own I was also excited to put what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletes-blog","tag-jay-wild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}