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The boat went back in the water on Tuesday night and I then spent a couple days making sure everything was put together just right, including a couple hours of training. With Mark Lloyd for a sunset photo-shoot, and joining in for one race of the Pol Roger cup, held in the other Artemis Offshore Academy Figaros. I then had my final meeting with Sports Psychologist Niel Weston before setting off on my delivery to Lorient where our winter training group, CEM, have re-united for a final training session with coach Franck Citeau
We have also managed to sort out my food and Diet Plan for La Solitaire with Round The World (TRW) foods. The major problem in sorting this out was trying to get enough calories in my daily quota, without spending too much of my time preparing and eating food, which effectively is going slowly as your not sailing the boat. We tried to make as much of the diet finger food as possible but, still struggled to get what we needed. So. we have now settled for “Boil-in-the-Bag” food which can be eaten hot or cold. This cuts down preparation time massively and leaves me with the added luxury of hot food, if I get the time. As a result an ideal days food consists of something like this: Muesli(in a bag), Four ‘boil-in-a-bag’ meals, dried fruit, nuts, chocolate, energy bars and a dessert(in a bag). This will probably be adapted a little depending on the forecast on the day before the leg. I won’t get hungry, that’s for sure.
My delivery down to Lorient was very productive, managing practice a few tacks, gybes and sail changes as well as passing through parts of the course, around Brittany and the Channel Islands. I then got a chance to go sailing with my brand spanking new mainsail today and was very pleased with it so, got back home in a very good mood. We have two more days sailing before setting off on the delivery to Perros where the real ‘Final-Preparations’ will begin."
Sam
From : Artemis offshore academy
