Words of Wisdom

Words of Wisdom – 03-19-06 - Andrew Pimental

I think Mark Bears "in the zone" has visited me for the last couple of weeks. Sometimes it doesn't seem to matter what you do, it just works. For the day I was caught on the wrong side of the coarse just once but it was a long race and I was able to catch up. One race I thought I was over early, restarted went right in bad air the whole way then tacked back to the middle and got wound up to the mark rounding in second. The whole day was like that.

I've been working hard to lose some weight for the snipe midwinter circuit, now I' am down to 190. Working out 6 days a week for the last 6 weeks I feel pretty good. In the puffy, shifty conditions of Sunday I think that's the biggest factor.

One thing from the previous week that finally dawned on me was at the first mark roundings. I could never figure out how the people that sailed really high then bore off would always catch us so quick. I tried it and realized how the leaders sailed into the bad air of the 40 boats trying to round the windward mark. I came back form bad first beats in two races and saved myself from any bad scores.

That's all I got.

Andrew Pimental