Intervals and a Kayak Issue

I checked the weather last night and it looked like it was going to be warm enough to ride, so I guessed John and Kat would show up at the usual time at Cup a Joes. When I went outside, it sure felt a lot colder than the 24 degrees that the thermometer in my apartment read! Well John and Kat did show up. They planned to do 2 sets of 10x60 second intervals with 60 sec rests at 90% effort. I tagged along. It was a good workout and I manged to stay under control with a max heart rate of around 170.

Todays workout data: Intervals

On the Kayak front, I have had to go to some pretty extreme lengths to straight the bottom of the surf Kayak I am building. When I joined the top and the bottom the panel on the bottom center taco ed up about an inch. Not really understanding this sort of Kayak, I thought "wow that is an interesting design feature." However after checking with my local whitewater kayak expert Tye, I discovered this was going to be a problem and could be why the instructions said that I should not substituted thinner plywood than the 4mm Oukume that was recommended (I used 3mm :-). Hmmmm so now I have the hull filled with temporary braces and shims hoping that the outside layers of glass will hold it in place after it cures.

I mixed pigment with the resin on the bottom in an attempt to cover over the stain disaster. So far so good.

The canoe is fairing quite well. I leveled the strips with a slow rpm disk sander with 36 grit-- at little too course, but that is what I had. I am trying to decide what fiberglass to use on it S or E.