Coaching

Just finished 2 days (monday and tuesday) of coaching and i feel like i've been beaten with a stick. I dont think i've ached as much since the liffey descent where it was hard to even walk.
Anyway, the first day i had one on one coaching with a guy called david. We paddled from the dam down to NRE campsite (the one where we're staying) which is an easy section, just so that david could see how my roll was on flatish water. We stopped at the campsite to have lunch then went to superhole for the afternoon. So the aim was for me to try to get into the hole and then when i went over to practice moving water rolls but i was either missing it (because you have to ferry across quite a fast moving green tongue to get to it) or getting into it for a while and then coming out but not going upside down. So i started trying to get into the hole and if i missed it i had to go upside down and roll in the wavey bit afterwards. That was fine most of the time, until later on when i was getting tired when i didnt roll twice, once i swam and the other time i eskimo rescued.
Day 2 i woke up so tired and achey i didnt really want to go but i got my stuff and i got breakfast and sat in the bar until it was time to go. We were joined by another coach, Anna, who had just returned after a year at home. So we started the day at superhole doing the same as we had the previous afternoon. I swam once fairly early on but then i began to loosen up a bit more and found it easier to get onto the wave and if i missed i had a couple of really good rolls so there was definately some improvement compared to monday. We than went on to do the day 2 section and i got to have my first look at itanda and i have to say it is a very impressive/intimidating rapid. We sat there to have lunch. We moved on and there are four rapids on the day 2 section with big bits of flat between them. The rapids are vengence, hair of the dog, cooler shacker and then nile special. All fun, just big big waves etc. I didnt go upside down (david and anna were impressed cos most people go over on those waves, although i thought it was a bad thing cos i sort of wanted practice rolling unexpectedly). I had most trouble staying upright on the bits afterwards where there are loads of boils and eddy lines and whirlpools. On the flat bits between i did more rolls and double pumping so went upside down a lot.
Having a rest day today. Will probably only get on the water later as me and jojo are teaching rooster (one of the raft guides) how to roll and one of the local girls, amina, how to paddle.
Speak soon, love Em xxx