This training session is dedicated to Air Force Tech Sgt. Arden Smith, who was assigned to the 102nd Rescue Squadron and lost his life during a rescue mission in 1991. Today was supposed to be a long slow easy paddle. It was long 3 hour and 10 minutes.  It was slow, average speed was 3.8 MPH versus a planned 4.0 MPH.  I did go 12 miles, but it was not easy. The winds were blowing pretty good and it made Tampa Bay kind of lumpy. I really didn’t want, and my workout plan didn’t call for, a hard workout today due to the workouts I had completed during the week. I just paddled a comfortable pace and let the speed be what it would be. I think this is one of the slowest long distance workout speeds I have logged since June. I am still messing around with the GeoHero camera and have not figured out how to join the videos. Thus the reason for three separate videos. Tomorrow I plan on posting my prospective on pain management for Watertribe events and how I am training for it. For Air Force Tech. Sgt. Arden Smith’s  family, that included a daughter, pain was when he was no longer there for them. A donation to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation will help provide a college education to his kid.  Please consider a donation to reduce the challenge the Smith family has been given. http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/billwhale/ufc2012