After six months working and kayaking around Patagonia I’m back at home at the Basque Country. The spring is already here, and winter has been quite snowy in the Pyrenees so it looks that we are gonna have good flows during this season.
I’m back in class 5 white water after the shoulder injury that I had in Chile when I was racing at the White Water Grand Prix. The shoulder is answering quite well now and it allows me to go kayaking hard.
Nice waterfall in Burgos only run once before.
During the past two weeks I’ve paddled in 8 different rivers, some of them twice, all of them in north of Spain, rivers that usually are not running but that are with good flows now because of the last rains. It’s nice to be on the water again in our rivers, with my friends. It’s nice to be back home.
Snowkayaking to get into the Hijar river.
Snowkayaking to get into the Hijar river.
Another nice waterfall…
Conquered the Ramp!
Now the snow is melting in the Pyrenees and rivers are starting to run so probably I’ll go there next weekend and will be around there for the next two months.
And when the rivers start running, the races start. In three weeks I’ve got my first race of this season, the OutdoorMix festival in France, and after that comes the Pyrenees Cup with three different races in three different rivers. So now is time for training, time to be on the water, time to go hard, time to charge.
See you on the water!
Mikel Sarasola
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