Training With the French Team

I started the training camp with the Ardeche marathon, this is a major race in France, and a lot of paddlers come and race for the challenge. The water level this year was extremely high. With my K2 partner Francois Poirier we placed 9th: we had a solid race but a bad start that put us behind the best. I’m looking forward to improve this ranking by paddling more K2 with François.

The week after I was accepted on a training camp with the French team. During this camp with trained 2 or 3 times a day. And we took profit of the high water levels to paddle a lot of big wild water.

The other paddlers present are all on the French team, U-23 or Senior: the concurrence was quite hard. But it is always nice to be able to enjoy this contact with them: it pushes you a lot to go harder.