High School sailors rock!

The sun may have been out in beautiful Hyannis, MA but it was bitter cold with water temperatures in the high 30s and wind-chill in the 30s or less, breeze on Saturday started in the high teens and worked up to gust in the 40s...why am I sharing this and how does it related to High School sailors rocking it out?

I rejoined the incredible coaching duo of Tim Fallon and Kyle Shuttuck for the "Raising the Sail" 420 Advanced Racing Clinic hosted by Barnstable High School Sailing Boosters Club and Hyannis Yacht Club. We had 42 enthusiastic kids present, representing 5 different New England High Schools and all with a clear passion for sailing.



The break down for the weekend was similar to last years clinic (see here for last year's post) with a balance of "chalk" talks, land-based warm ups, on the water drills and both fleet and team racing...all in one weekend! The best quote which explains how and why this is pulled off with great success comes from one of the coaches:

"You have to be smart enough to be stupid enough to want to do it" (to spend a day practicing in the freezing cold with your sailing pals to be a better sailor) ~ Kyle Shuttuck

It was very cold but beautiful weather made perfect by the participants, event organizers, volunteers, coaches and the numerous sponsors ~ THANK YOU!







On Sunday it was all about Team racing and having a bit of fun with making the other boat go S L OW!!





Three of SailTrim industry partners where supporters of this event:

SailFast Clothing (Check out some of there new design for Spring/Summer)
Atlantis Weather Gear
Harken

I'll have a slide show up when I get all the photos downloaded ~ have a great season!!

Fair Winds,
Jenn

Spring training...around the corner!

I am in Annapolis this moment and when you walk around town there are little hints of Spring: buds on trees, bulbs pushing through and birds singing. However, it does not feel like Spring as I have long underwear on beneath my clothes while walking around town!

The upcoming March issue of The SailTrim Journals will cover some general health topics to set a stage for a successful "Spring Training", how to make breakfast a habit you never break and using the rising mercury to motivate de-stressing in the natural world.

The work on this issue has my mind wrapped about starting the season off on the right foot and if you are not inspired to get outside just yet, looking at your day-to-day nutrition is an ice breaker. This blog is a little bit of a "sales-pitch" but how else am I to let you all how I've taken my favorite client activity and automated it so I can provide more people with a means to get feedback and consider lifestyle tweaks for leading a healthier life and improve sailing performance?!?!

My favorite client activity? The Food Journal! The best way to figure out how food impacts your life is writing it down (recording it) - we science types also LOVE data to work with!

Two weeks (~ 14 days) is a nice chunk of time for someone like myself to assess if what you eat is slowing you down. It is also an inexpensive short term way to help folks address key things which make "making weight" a challenge, provides great self awareness and extremely educational.

I am just so excited to have this available and with my research interest in nutritional timing and muscle recovery - well, lets just say this is some of my favorite work to do (next to sailing of course!)

Give it some thought...in 14 days you could unlock your own little secret to never worrying about making weight again...

Oh wait..there's more... TEASING - had the tune of one of those TV infomercials in my head!

Gotta Love It...

I am a little late in posting..but Congrats to Gotta Love It 7 for cleaning house at JJ's! Thank you for all the photos Christophe! I am BEYOND excited about the 2008 European Circuit, it's an affair I can not let go of.

More from 18fotos...

Thank you Christophe!

18fotos Presents...

My dear friend Christophe Favreau just sent these in from the JJ's: