One of the problems with not living directly on the beach or in Galveston AND holding a full-time job AND being actively involved in three other sports is that time on the beach surfing can be limited. I'm fortunate to have a schedule at work that allows me to work four nine-hour days and one four-hour day to fulfill my week. Because of that schedule, I have the opportunity to surf on Friday afternoons. Unfortunately, the waves aren't always in agreement with my schedule. I was fortunate that there were enough waves to play in this past Friday. November had been extremely flat, but by the end of the work week last week, waves were building. Although they were small most of the time, an occasional thigh- or waist-high wave would come through.
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| One last Costa Rica shot! |
I hadn't been to my home break since returning from Costa Rica a couple of weeks ago. So when I heard there were surf able waves, I headed down after work. Although I thought I would go out at Flagship, I decided that 43rd would be better. The surf dude met me there. We first went out on the east side of the jetty. Because of the way the wind was blowing, I felt like I couldn't get far enough away from it to feel safe. In fact, I pearled on the very first wave I went after simply because I looked up, saw the jetty and freaked out. I decided to go to the west side where I had much more fun. I caught some great little waves and had some fun rides; however, I still had a couple of mishaps that caused me to pearl. I felt like my wetsuit was getting stuck to the wax on my board. I'm not sure that is even possible, but it's exactly how I felt. I also felt like my pop-up was slow. I had a couple of small bruises on the inside of my right knee that definitely suggested that, at least a few times, I was getting on my knee during the pop-up. (Yikes! Not sure why I would be doing that...except that the wetsuit was slowing me down.) I need to work on that.
Sunday is the other day that I usually surf. However, today I had already committed to a run. Not sure why I committed to doing this particular run since I'm already registered for two others during the next seven weeks, but I did. The dude called to say the waves were spectacular, but I needed to do this run. So, I missed out. I'm hoping that next weekend will also include waves. In fact, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will.
