 McIntosh
Racing - towards 2000Aaron McIntosh from Sydney |
31 DAYS AND COUNTING No news is good news. I think I’ve said
that before. Here it is just the facts and no more. I am happy with progress
ands that’s all it is progress. You may have known we have just had our Oceanic
Championships on Sydney Harbour. Barbara and I were both successful. Mistral Oceanic Championships Aug
10-14. I arrived in Sydney on the 1st August time enough to finish my cross training programme and get back into Sydney Harbour mode.
Training well there’s not much to say in that department. 3-4 hours on the water a day, 3 days on 1 day off, running drills and practise races perfecting the package for the perfect performance in September. To cut a long story short we had 10 races I placed 4th, 1st, 2nd, 1st, 5th, 12th, 1st, 2nd, 7th, 7th. I discarded my 12th and a 7th to finish up with 23 points, Lars Kleppich of Australia finished 2nd on 27 points. 3rd was Tony Philip of Fiji on 44 points We had range of conditions and very shifty winds which seemed to play in to my hands quite nicely.
It was nice to hit my straps a month out but I still have to work on a few areas. This result was certainly a confidence builder. I do know that everyone else will be putting in the time to close the gap. I am happy with my speed and I have almost made my equipment selections. For me it is business as usual, I must admit that I did not make it onto the water today a Southerly wind of 20-25knots rain and 12 degrees did not appeal. I still felt tired after the last regatta and it would be just too easy to get sick. 30 days to go, scary, but exciting. That’s all for now, watch this space. Thanks for your continued support. Aaron McIntosh |
| 25th June 2000 Off to the Office
More news coming soon... |
AARON’S
MONTHLY SYDNEY NEWS. Day one. I don’t think so! Try again. Well don’t have much to report on, Oh yes today was my day off, I watched 2 videos (Fight Club and The Wog Boy) Recommend both and made Bran muffins, quite tasty if I don’t say so my self. So far so good, everything has been going to plan, I have done more hours on the water than I had hoped and my gym programme was going perfect until 2 days ago. The problem was I could not get out of bed. Coach Grant Beck has been with me for the last 10 days and has been shaking the whip on the water. I continued my off the water training with some added Yoga for my flexibility and then I crashed. I put Grant on the plane yesterday, thank you very much nice to see the back of him and put my feet up, more like my head down. Winter in Sydney is mild, a couple of
degrees warmer then Auckland on average, although we have had some cold days and the
purchase of a big heater was needed for those cold nights. The only problem with
good weather in winter is that when its sunny there is no wind, I mean glassy (pic
attached) I have made the most of all the wind during the last few weeks the windless days are spent in the gym and at yoga. Oh yes, I try and rest. So far, so good. The first week I arrived Bruce Kendall came over and trained that worked well, the second week Grant arrived and I trained against the Chinese. They have 6 sailors here 4 men and 2 female? This has worked out well, we even had dinner with them last week, with my limited Chinese and there limited English we had a funny evening, and the great thing about it was the Chinese Yachting Association paid for it and invited me to race in China during November. I had to say I would think about it, I hadn’t planed on any windsurfing at least for a few months. Back into it tomorrow (by the time you get this it will be tomorrow)
July 4th return to NZ July 11th – 24h Training and racing in LA. July 26th – August 1st in NZ August 1st arrive Sydney. Training Sydney. August 10th-14th Oceanic Championships Sydney. August 15th-28th Training Sydney. August 28th return to NZ. September 2nd Depart to Sydney with NZ Olympic Yachting team. Training Sydney. September 15th Opening Ceremony 2000 Olympic games. September 17th Racing Begins September 24th Racing Ends September 25th Party Begins. October 2nd arrive home with NZ Olympic team. That’s all for now. Thanks for your continued support. Regards Aaron McIntosh |
My aim was to
take this event as a serious dress rehearsal. It would be the last contest before
the Olympics. I had all my support team over; we were working out what does
and what doesn’t work. Our event was scheduled for 10 races with 2 discards over 5
days.
Hello all,
and
when the temp drops the wind seems to blow. You just can’t have it good
all the time. 
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