I must've paddled about 50 times around the marina next to Freyberg Pool this morning.
I was graciously invited by Gemma Potaka, who I know from polo, to go and train with them Wednesday and Friday in the marina, and I eagerly accepted. They are pretty damn fit, I was using a, shorter than usual, streamlined boat and they were using their normal polo boats which are much rounder and flatter and they were going hard too. Their morning regime is to go for a full hour, not uncommon for me, and every five minutes do 30 sprint strokes. I may implement that into my usual morning as well because the challenge is fun. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the marina in daylight, and the one I took in darkness is crap so I am not going to bother posting it. Anyway, it is really slippery down there and the slalom boat I was using today is very tippy and I almost went in trying to get in it, in the dark and the bitterly cold wind. You could hear it in the masts of the yachts around us.
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Dark blurry morning.
Let me stress, this is not the whole team. Polo teams have at least five players.
Dad being artsy.