My life has been chaos as usual rolling into midterms but last weekend was the Brush Creek race outside Kernville, CA. The race went well with some fast racers laying it down and I ended up taking 6th place in the short boat division off the couch from pushin pencils.
Category Archives: Competition
Russel Fork Race 2011
Vous voyez, même les navettes sont king size ici !? Malgré tout, ça n’a pas été simple d’en trouver une.
Adidas sickline 2011
Cette année semble me porter sous l’étoile de: “la guigne” !
Après mes trois mois de corset, me voilà opéré en urgence ce 15 aôut pour un abcès au talon d’Achille… Vive l’eau du gave de Pau et sa pollution. Presque trois semaines plus tard et nombre de séances de musculation pour me calmer les nerfs j’étais de nouveau sur l’eau et au travail. Seulement, c’était sans compter sur les effets indésirables des antibiotiques qui ont fini de perturber mon entrainement et ma préparation pour la Sickline.
Tales from Teva: Part 2 Homestake
Homestake Creek race attracts people from all over the world. It’s the opportunity to gauge yourself with the best paddlers in the sport. Olympians, future Olympians, World Champs, world cup slalom kayakers, and even the locals all show up to put down their best two runs. Racers come for the $2,000 cash prize, the fame, the american women, or just for the love of competition. This year was some of the tightest competition I’ve ever seen in kayak racing. No one person stood out as the obvious choice for the leader. The flow was around 100 cfs making it just pushy enough to bounce off some rocks and not enough to make it any cleaner. Keeping your kayak up to speed was key with so many direction changes and places to accelerate all over the course.