Reno Hometown Throwdown #5 2010
After the Reno River Festival everyone had boatercross fever, so Toby decided that we should turn that week’s throwdown into another boatercross race. We had 4 heats stuffed full of kayakers wanting to go fast. We had a backwards start where all the racers lined up backwards and once the start horn sounded they had to spin around fast and get moving across the flat start pool. Once they crossed the pool they were all lactic and had to negotiate the remaining three drops with other boaters looking to shove them off line. The top two boaters from each heat advanced on to the next round. We also had a consolation final were all the boaters who did not advance got to have one more shot to advance. There were some great passes during our day of racing. Rusty and Noah were dueling it out all day for the title of fastest racer, and in the end Rusty walked away with the win. The results of the final heat were.
1.Rusty
2.Noah
3.Drew
4.Matt
5.Sage
6.Mike
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Reno Slalom Survivor #1 2010
Once again we got terrible weather for our Slalom Survivor race. Despite the weather we had 13 frosty boaters brave enough to get wet. We set up a super fun course, and we had people racing in everything from play boats to creek boats. The course contained sections were boaters were required to hand paddle, paddle backwards, shoot a throw rope, and work on taking fewer strokes to get the job done. There were time bonuses for great throw rope shots and time penalties for excessive stroke work through one section of the course.
Jessie and Kyle both got a jump ahead of Blaine, who was not even present. Sage, just fresh off of some great race finishes in Kernville, raced well. Scott gave his new Villain a great test run. Noah managed to get a second place finish in a play boat. I am looking forward to our next pre Reno River Festival throwdown
1. Nick
2.Noah
3.Pete
4.Matt
5.Scott
6.Jesse
7.Dirk
8.Brian
9.Justin
10.Drew
11.Kyle
12.Mary
13.Sage
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