Man, this session was useless. I went to IJmuiden for the first time. The winds were okay in the forecast, about 20 knots. When I arrived, it looks like it was a lot less. So I took my 12sqm Switchblade. After someone helped me launch I already noticed I didn’t exactly have a lot of depower left anymore, but still I got in the water. After 10 minutes, I got out again, because the winds were picking up and 12sqm was simply way too much. After I got out my 8sqm Jekyll, things went a lot better, although I still sucked quite a bit. The breaking waves are sometimes simply too big to get through for me, and jumping over them is not an option yet…

No wonder though those waves are so big with a strong SW wind blowing at IJmuiden, especially when you look the coast line with the pier and all. I was glad I didn’t stay in the water with my 12sqm, because the winds peaked at 25 - 28 knots in the afternoon. I would surely have been in trouble.

Because I was constantly loosing my board, I was body dragging a lot and got cold quite quickly, so it was the longest of all sessions… Still good though, to have been in the water for a while at 8 degrees Celcius with water about 6 or 7 degrees Celcius.

Oh, and my latest 5k time (today) was 24m38. 19 seconds faster than last time…