Rain Goes Away Paddle Racers Have A Great Day
We spent yesterday wishing away the rain only to awaken to our wishes nearly being granted. However, "Life is not waiting for the storm to pass. It's dancing in the rain." - Vivian Green (all photos by Sophi Rutherford)
And dance we did. In fact, some paddlers even rocked it out. Jasper Caddell for example tapped his way to a new course record on the short course. 17:14 Check out the video of the his finish.
Phil Tressenrider was doing the tango and throwing buoy turns like Fred Astaire. Don't believe me? Behold, At the 30 second mark if you are in a hurry.
Wanna know how that battle finished out? Watch the thrilling finish here.
We were once again somehow blessed with a window of the best weather of the day right at our race time. If there is a theme to this years races its definitely "Windows". Clouds lightened up, rains faded away, and winds subsided. We had OC1, Surfski, SUP, and Kayaks out on the course, our usual swiss army assortment of water toys.
To err on the side of caution we did change the long course. We sent the long course racers out to the 6 piling and then back to the shop where the pressure was on to do a turn right in front of the crazed cowbell ringing crowd. Back out to the 7 piling and then back to finish.
Pictured below Men's SUP winner John Dye. Note the name of the boat behind John. La Dolce Vita. We are living it.
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Paddle of the day goes to Tanja Alva. Tanja's been chipping away at her personal best time on the course but today everything clicked and she crushed her old record by just about 4 minutes! Personal besting is what our racing is all about. Here's what it looks like at the finish line when you crush a PBR. For the record all three Alva's ended up on the podium.
March 30th - Santa Cruz Paddlefest
May 4th - Great Russian River Race
May 24th - California River Quest
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Long course SUP remove one minute to get your time. Short Course remove 5 minutes to get your corrected time.
| Event Name | Name(s) | Racer Num | Category | Age Group | Gender | Time | Rank | Div Rank |
| Long Course | Carter Johnson | 25 | Surfski Single | 18-55 | male | 41:18.0 | 1 | 1 |
| Long Course | Zachary Alva | 2 | Surfski Single | 18-55 | male | 43:40.9 | 2 | 2 |
| Long Course | Kenny Howell | 20 | Surfski Single | 56+ | male | 44:04.2 | 3 | 1 |
| Long Course | Petri Alva | 12 | Surfski Single | under 18 | male | 45:07.6 | 4 | 1 |
| Long Course | Kasen Taylor | 4 | Surfski Single | under 18 | male | 46:15.9 | 5 | 2 |
| Long Course | Dylan Anacleto-black | 10 | Surfski Single | under 18 | male | 46:24.0 | 6 | 3 |
| Long Course | Luke Zolenierowski | 33 | Surfski Single | 18-55 | male | 52:27.7 | 7 | 3 |
| Long Course | Jeff Kay | 11 | OC-1 | 18-55 | male | 52:47.0 | 8 | 1 |
| Long Course | Claudia Breuer | 23 | SUP 12'6" | 18-55 | female | 57:07.1 | 9 | 1 |
| Long Course | David Liu | 16 | OC-1 | 18-55 | male | 59:15.3 | 10 | 2 |
| Long Course | Susan Starbird | 19 | Surfski Single | 56+ | female | 00:11.5 | 11 | 1 |
| Long Course | John Dye | 9 | SUP 14' | 56+ | male | 01:03.2 | 12 | 1 |
| Long Course | Phil Tressenrider | 29 | SUP 14' | 56+ | male | 01:18.22 | 13 | |
| Long Course | Matty Ponder | 3 | SUP 14' | 18-55 | male | 01:18.4 | 14 | 1 |
| Long Course | John Walsh | 21 | SUP 14' | 18-55 | male | 01:24.3 | 15 | 2 |
| Long Course | Shanna Upton | 27 | SUP 14' | 18-55 | female | 04:17.3 | 16 | 1 |
| Long Course | Vincent Fallourd | 22 | SUP 14' | 18-55 | male | 05:58.4 | 17 | 3 |
| Long Course | Chris Pope | 13 | SUP 14' | 18-55 | male | 08:17.9 | 18 | 4 |
| Short Course | Jasper Caddell | 5 | Surfski Single | under 18 | male | 22:14.7 | 1 | 1 |
| Short Course | Philip Majumdar | 31 | Surfski Single | under 18 | male | 22:44.9 | 2 | 2 |
| Short Course | Kai Leon | 30 | Surfski Single | under 18 | male | 26:42.9 | 3 | 3 |
| Short Course | Tanya Alva | 32 | Surfski Single | 56+ | female | 32:11.2 | 4 | 1 |
| Short Course | Mel Selvidge | 34 | SUP 14' | 18-55 | female | 33:35.8 | 5 | 1 |
| Short Course | Leo Montero | 15 | SUP Inflatable 14' | 18-55 | male | 34:15.6 | 6 | 1 |
| Short Course | Dave Hook | 8 | SUP 14' | 56+ | male | 35:04.4 | 7 | 1 |
| Short Course | Julie Stevens | 17 | SUP 14' | 18-55 | female | 35:33.2 | 8 | 2 |
| Short Course | Bob Cooper | 14 | Kayak | 56+ | male | 35:46.2 | 9 | 1 |
| Short Course | Tony Graef | 28 | SUP 14' | 56+ | male | 39:10.7 | 10 | 2 |
| Short Course | Sunny Blende | 24 | SUP 12'6" | 56+ | female | 41:46.8 | 11 | 1 |
| Short Course | Cc Moncada | 7 | SUP Inflatable 12'6" | 56+ | female | 43:08.9 | 12 | 1 |
| Short Course | Steve Ebel | 6 | SUP 14' | 18-55 | male | 57:23.8 | 13 | 1 |
Short Course 12'6 Womens winner Sunny Blende.
