Seekajaktour: Umrundung Irlands im Seekajak 2015

Preparing
Maybe you being paddler, you might find for yourself some ideas to squeeze
some extra training into your normal live if needed. This bit I found the most
challenging first.
Nifty being ready for her biggest trip so far
Regarding kayaking I would consider myself a late-developer: Starting at the age of 35 but
paddling once a month or on holidays for 2 or 3 days. Only when we moved to Oldenburg,
(closer to the sea) about five years ago, I could go sea kayaking on a regular basis since I
stopped my “commuting existence” (being home just on weekends). Camping was a new
experience to me as well. So while others having happily survived their mid-life-crisis and
then withdrawing to a more comfy style of living with cruise ships, Hotels and all-inclusiveoffers
I squeezed myself into a one-man-tent and (firstly) cheap sleeping-bag learning to
enjoy this.
Mirco on the other hand, I would rather call the “gear-god” of our team. He had already
gathered lots of experiences being outdoors and due to these experiences had already
“reduced his stuff to the max”. Living in Anglesea and training with the “big boyz and girls”
his rough water experience was far beyond to the extent I could reach before the trip.
To sum it up: there was lots to learn and to experience for me before and during the trip. So
my preoccupation before the trip was not to slow him down. So once we agreed about
paddling together a year before I started preparing on the three building-blocks
Training (fitness),
Skills (paddling),
Mindset (dealing mentally with conditions).
© Christian Dingenotto 2015
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