Rainbows And Wind Blows At Paddle Race #3

It was with some trepidation that we green-lighted today’s race. While the forecasters were calling for 60mph winds a Friday review of the radar our-selves presented a little weather window. We opened it and jumped straight through feet first! (pictured start number 2 - the short course fires off the line)

And we were not alone. Over 30 racers showed up to take on the challenge and for that ‘go for it’ spirit they were rewarded. We have a reputation for rain or shine racing and we owe that to the perfect set up the San Rafael canal presents us. As long as the winds are not from the North its pretty hard to see us cancelling a race. Heck we looked at the graphic below and said yeah let's go for it. 

Rain is just water after all and last time we checked it is a water sport.

Once again, the diversity of the fleet was a reason to celebrate. Prone, SUP, Surfski, K1, Kayaks, and OC all took to the water to make the best of it. While we ran our normal short course we did change the long course to be two laps of the short course. This added to the excitement for the spectators as the racers had to make a buoy turn directly in front of the cow bell ringing masses.

The racers started the day chasing down a cornucopia of Fruit courtesy The Fruit Guys with a bottomless bucket of Hint Waters. For a little protein many racers were found grinding on the energy packed, low sugar, Kind Bars. It was a wise move saving that sugar for the post-race party that featured Mamie’s Pies and Three Twins Ice Cream. Our very own Soup Nazi made a killer batch of homemade Chicken Noodle Soup and was often heard saying “Yes – Soup for You”. Yeah, he’s quite a bit nicer than the Seinfeld guy. Support the businesses that support our sport!

After racing we were lucky to have the Paddle 4 Good team in to give their CPR class – for free. About 20 folks went through the program. It’s a pretty good day when you can have some great family fun on the water at the same time you put 20 potential new life savers out in to the community. Thanks to Max Montgomery and Andi Traynor for making this happen

Starting Line Video Short Course

Starting Line Video Long Course

Thanks to everyone who raced – we’ll see you at the next one. And remember rain or shine we are on the line.

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