My Escape from Swiss Winter

In the middle of January I just did my last exams at school. Just after I went to Tenero in the south of Switzerland for two weeks training camp. It was very nice to let school books at home and only put the sport stuff in my bag when I packed. When I came home I just started at a 25km Cross-Country Ski competition. I was pretty tired from the camp, but I wanted to start there, because I really believe that this sport is a very good training for Kayaking. The race was very tough and painful. I did not do enough kilometres on the Skis this Winter for being super fast, but finally I was satisfied with my result. I made Place 70 in a big field with over 450 men. I needed less than 1h 15min for the 25 kilometres which is pretty fast in fact that it was snowing during the race.

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After one week at home I packed again my stuff together and flew the first time in my life to Israel where the next camp started. In total I will be for five weeks at this place. Two hard weeks are already done. By far I am very satisfied with this place. We have very nice weather here. Unfortunately there are quite many windy days and the Sea of Galilee gets a little wavy. But then we walk with our boats to Jordan river where we can paddle always. The Jordan River is one of the nicest places I ever paddled except for we only can paddle about 1200m. It feels like you paddle in the jungle. You see hundreds of palm trees and lianas. On sunny days there are turtles chilling at the sun and many colourful birds flying and swimming around us.

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My main training partners here are Miika Dietrich from Finland and Stefan Domeisen from my Club. Miika is a big and fast finish paddler, it’s the first time that he trains with us. On some days local hero Ilya Podpolny joins our training group. Some trainings I do together with the Russian Olympian Ilya Medwedev, who has a crazy strong endurance. I am very thankful to this guy’s! The training quality is one of the highest ever.

The Jordan Valley Kayak Club has everything a paddler needs, a small but fine gym, almost 200 boats and so many friendly helpful people. It is very familiar here and time is running very quickly. Also thanks to this guys. With Ronit Shaked we have also a good therapist which helps us to regenerate faster. For my regeneration I also use an Electro Stimulator from Compex, thanks a lot for the Support from Compex I like it very much and it helps a lot.

Now we have an easier week with around 17 hours of training. On Friday there will be a 10km race here and I try to make Russian Ilya’s life as hard as possible. The last two weeks will be very hard again and I will paddle 200km and train almost 30 hours a week. When we come home the Swiss Winter should be over and I can start the preparation for the first competitions. The main goal this season will be the Worlds in Milano. It is the first chance to qualify to Olympic Games 2016, and to have such an important competition this year motivates me enormous.

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