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| A handful of us crossed into B.C. this weekend headed for that annual Challenge called the Round Bowen Race. In case you have never done it, it can be one of the most cruel races in North America: 21 miles of mixed conditions, ferry wakes, and unsettled weather. Today we got lucky with the weather and had mild temps and only a small amount of wind and rain. This meant that the southern shores of the island was not the washing machine that it can become when the winds are up. Before the race started, I counted 7 doubles, but saw less singles than any of the four previous Bowen races that I had entered. Attendence was down for both the Round Bowen Challenge and the Outrigger relay with no known reason. Still, there was enough paddlers to constitute a real race and Martin, the race director, dictated that we would be racing in a counter-clockwise direction. This was my first time in this direction, so maybe this was to be my lucky day. Most of my other Bowen races had ended in mediocre finishes except for one where me and my doubles partner had to abandon ship and swim for shore. This time I had my steadfast partner Shaun after spending several days trying to talk him into commiting to one more Bowen before he enrolls in a nursing home. | A handful of us crossed into B.C. this weekend headed for that annual Challenge called the Round Bowen Race. In case you have never done it, it can be one of the most cruel races in North America: 21 miles of mixed conditions, ferry wakes, and unsettled weather. Today we got lucky with the weather and had mild temps and only a small amount of wind and rain. This meant that the southern shores of the island was not the washing machine that it can become when the winds are up. Before the race started, I counted 7 doubles, but saw less singles than any of the four previous Bowen races that I had entered. Attendence was down for both the Round Bowen Challenge and the Outrigger relay with no known reason. Still, there was enough paddlers to constitute a real race and Martin, the race director, dictated that we would be racing in a counter-clockwise direction. This was my first time in this direction, so maybe this was to be my lucky day. Most of my other Bowen races had ended in mediocre finishes except for one where me and my doubles partner had to abandon ship and swim for shore. This time I had my steadfast partner Shaun after spending several days trying to talk him into commiting to one more Bowen before he enrolls in a nursing home. | ||
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| + | **Jeff Hegedus <jhegedus@...>** \\ | ||
| + | 06/06/10 #8616 | ||
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| + | Great race you guys! My butt is going to seriously ache, all week, after this race. | ||
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| + | **dnjacobson79** \\ | ||
| + | 06/07/10 #8619 | ||
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| + | Good race everyone, big thanks to the race organizers and volunteers for making it happen! From a singe surf ski perspective the name of the game was "staying with the wolf pack" ie the doubles. I made the start line decision to go with the special for what I thought would be epic conditions, but if ended up being a long Wednesday night slog (but fun). Apparently I did not adjust the steering correctly and was basically with limited steering as I drafted to stay with the wolf pack. Kirk at one point about ten miles into the race gave me a piece of mind as I DUI'ed behind the varies doubles, and then a new single paddler (SA who trains with Garath) put his initials on my front deck with his big wing with a couple well timed push off strokes. That kind of fired me up during the race and was contemplating interjecting a 'cagematch' take down for about an hour of the race (hey, maybe Larry and Shaun could have jumped in as well), but the thought of Garath jumping in to join the fun kept the idea only at the occasional death glance status. Finally my cagematch rival bonked off the wolfpack, I thought about making a solo move away from the back for about two seconds, when I realized the only solo move would be to watch the pack fade in the distance, so I kept my place in the pack. The finish seemed to sneak up on us (I was looking at me GPS which said 19.7 miles and was expecting another two miles) when Garth and team Raymond took off on the finish sprint leaving the rest of the pack to first process we were at the finish and then to try to put together a finish sprint. I apologized to my fantasy cagematch partner, Jan, at the finish and it turned out he's a great guy, (an hour of low blood plotting fade quickly at the finish line) so I'll make sure to have better steering around him next time. Believe in or not, unstoppable Morris seemed like he was hurting the most at the finish line(yo dude - I did 4 double shot gues during the race, try that next time), most agreed that the double of Larry/Mark were the surprise of the day, and Mike G. drank the most beer at the after race BBQ.\\ | ||
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| + | **Michael Gregory** \\ | ||
| + | 06/07/10 #8620 | ||
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| + | Random Notes:\\ | ||
| + | - Bowen Is. is the race that we all love to hate. It hurts soo much the last mile or so, really hurts!\\ | ||
| + | - Still, we keep going back (?).\\ | ||
| + | - High point this year - - - the start! Several nameless paddlers actually waited for the horn blasts that never happened. The start ended up being sort of a free-for-all thing.\\ | ||
| + | - Deejay, I did not drink the most beer. I can not drink beer anywhere near as much as the Canucks. I might have tried though, 'cept Dean and Kirk made me leave on the ferry, durn it.\\ | ||
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| + | **Larry <lbussing@...>** \\ | ||
| + | 06/07/10 #8622 | ||
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| + | The front of the Team 204 1/2....My shoulders feel like they are going to fall off, my butt hurts, my stomach and back are hamburger, and I'm hoarse from hollering at Mark. That guy is either really patient or deaf! Man, we had a hell of a race. We fell behind and caught up to the pack three times. Four, if you count the sprint to the finish with Morris and Debbie. Yeah Team.. Larry B | ||
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| + | **rlingblo <rlingblo@...>** \\ | ||
| + | 06/07/10 #8627 | ||
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| + | Way to go you guys! The only problem I see is that I may have lost my paddling buddy to the big leagues!\\ | ||
| + | Rick L. | ||
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| + | **Larry <lbussing@...>** \\ | ||
| + | 06/08/10 #8631 | ||
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| + | No problems Rick. Number 1, Mark probably won't paddle with me anymore and two, its your boat! Thanks for letting me use it. Larry B | ||
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