The last time I had a surf streak going was the summer of 2007. I still cannot find the calendar where I kept a log of all of my surf sessions. Anyway, I may be off the mark here but I believe it was 126 days in a row. My goal is to beat that. What happened the last go around I really hit a wall about day 14. It feels like this may happen again. At first the exhilaration of starting a streak and gaining your skills back is enough to carry you through the first week or so, but then it just becomes a streak and that is where you get tested. Because of the exhilaration you have more energy but it goes away and combined with tired muscles you actually start to deteriorate a little bit. I am there now. However, I have to be honest I did go out drinking last night and that is certainly slowing me down quite a bit today.
Jason and I got it really good this morning, as we were on it at dawn. The waves were pretty good with offshore winds and actually some size. I initially brought my 10 foot longboard down to the parking lot and realized very quickly that I had chosen the wrong board. So I ran back up the hill and got my 6'2" short board. I surfed really pretty poorly all in all as I had a bit of a hangover. I had a few good turns and a decent cutback but that's about it. Jason rode my fun gun is he's just getting back in the water and he got some pretty good waves.
I'm experimenting with some video so this doesn't show much it just shows that it is a nice day and it is a long time after we surfed this video was taken at about 12:30 PM. One more thing to note is that if it seems like my writing style varies it is because sometimes I'm dictating into the blog utilizing voice recognition software. It seems to work pretty well but oftentimes I do not go back and proof what it has written so there are quite frequently typos.
Today is my brother's birthday and we are headed over to my mom's house to celebrate. It should be a good time! I'm looking forward to.
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