I’m a little reluctant to admit this, but part of the reason I don’t surf more is that I go so infrequently that my paddling muscles are atrophied. It always takes at least a couple of days of surfing to start building them up again. And paddling during those days is pretty difficult. Shoulders burn out in the water, can’t breathe very well, and my lats, shoulders, traps, and triceps are always sore the next day.<\/p>\n
Here’s the worst part: I live about five blocks from a dock on the Willamette River. It’d be a no-brainer to haul my board down to the river and paddle for an hour or so. I just realized this literally this week. I’ve been living in this particular house for 5 years. If I’d been paddling a couple of days a week during that time, I’d have no trouble<\/em> hitting the surf whenever the opportunity arose.<\/p>\n Another nice this is that the water temperature is only a couple of degrees different. The temp at Pacific City today was 60\u00b0 and the temp in the river is 62\u00b0. Geez, I feel like a total idiot. I’m going paddling in the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m a little reluctant to admit this, but part of the reason I don’t surf more is that I go so infrequently that my paddling muscles are atrophied. It always takes at least a couple of days of surfing to start building them up again. And paddling during those days is pretty difficult. Shoulders burn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ckgU-aC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}