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April 14, 2009 Results
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Description: Lone Rock Point and Return
Course Length: About 5.28 km
Race Commentary:
It was another awesome night for kayak racing, and another great turn out by keen kayak racers. So in the middle of the pack there are some great rivalries building for future races. That's what the Tuesday Night Race is all about. You can always find some at your level to compete against.
Recent returnees to the Tuesday Night Race scene after several years of raising kids are starting to heat up the mid-pack competition. Pat Johnson, has had several year hiatus from TNR. He is making TNR his weekly race event and will soon be pushing some of the TNR veterans. Sharon Robertson and Carolyn Hubbard are emerging from early childhood rearing to pursue surf ski racing. Sharon has her name on the Tour de Indian Arm Trophy and Carolyn is a veteran of several Round Bowen races. Last night both were both were closely pursuing World Kayak Marathon Championship participant Jen Zimmerman. Watch out Jen! Both Sharon and Carolyn haven't touched a paddle in several years and they will only get faster.
Rookie Warren Bruce showed no respect to Veterans Rod and Micky as he lead them across the finish line. John George made an appearance after injuring his shoulder. Hopefully he will build his way back into good form.
Marshall House and partner Curtis Brock finally made the maiden voyage of Marshal's new Fenn Mako XT double. Their combined forces wasn't enough to take Gary Cassulis who could paddle faster scared than they could angry...well maybe not angry, more determined.
Rivalries are what helps everybody improve. Your competitor will drive you to get that extra paddling session in during the week and to dig a little deeper at the finish line, and that's what happened to me when Pete Alfred pushing to pass me at the finish line and mean while I was pushing Ty Gee.
But the best battle captured on video and view by all at The Raven was Jeff Raymond getting schooled at the finish line by Frenchman Jean Rillard. I took great pleasure in watching Jeff being left in Rillard's dust mainly because Jeff has done this move on me many times. BTW I was much further back in the pack. Jean exploded away from Jeff with amazing acceleration with about 200m to the finish. Jean combined a very high cadence with solid technique and great power. Jeff has nothing to feel bad about however as Jean was an alternate for the French National Kayak Team for the Beijing Olympics. He's no slouch. What was also interesting was watching the rest of us slouches "sprinting" to the finish line in their wake. After watching Jean our sprints seemed...insignificant. But rather than being discouraged we should all take inspiration.
Upcoming Races:
Dan Harris Challenge - Bellingham, April 26
Tour De Indian Arm - Deep Cove, May 10
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Last Name First Name Boat # Boat Type DK Partner Time 1 Rillard Jean 923 HPK 25.07 2 Raymond Jeff 179 HPK 25.10 3 Sy Jonathan 119 HPK 25.53 4 Carter Reid 120 HPK 26.09 5 Dobrovolny Chris 71 HPK 26.11 6 Lewis Terry 200 HPK 26.12 7 Remmler Darryl 69 HPK 26.17 8 Gee Ty 112 HPK 26.27 9 Putnam Bob HPK 26.29 10 Alfred Peter 99 HPK 26.30 11 Brown Sasha 1241 HPDK Brian Mcurdy 26.54 12 George John 333 HPK 27.04 13 Fast Ben 268 HPDK Eric Fast 27.33 14 Bruce Warren 102 HPK 27.48 15 Hope Rod 133 HPK 27.50 16 McDonald Mickey 60 HPK 28.00 17 Rademacher Katja 178 HPK 28.24 18 Johnston Pat 14 HPK 28.26 19 Boates Jodi 15 HPK 28.33 20 Rother Martin 4479 HPK 28.40 21 Augains Lina 1239 DK Andrew Dye 28.50 22 Foellmer Nicholas 1082 DHPK Foellmer Sebastien 29.05 23 Armstrong Corky 144 HPK 29.17 24 Cassulis Gary 282 HPK 29.54 25 House Marshall 1247 HPDK Curtis Brock 30.14 26 Taylor Mike 344 HPK 30.26 27 Penn Gordon 54 OCI 30.45 28 Hope Greg 19 HPK 30.46 29 Zimmerman Jen 6 HPK 32.02 30 Robertson Sharon 1243 HPK 32.16 31 Hubbard Carolyn 1076 HPK 32.25 32 Hartmann Fred 51 OCI 32.46 33 Foellmer Kurt 1075 HPK 32.51 34 Groll Bernd 164 SK 32.53 35 Jameson Chris 35 HPK 33.06 36 Bisalputra Dan 1246 HPK 33.33 37 Siemens Criag 23 HPK 33.42 38 Bennett Tim 44 SK 34.28 39 Burgess Steve 31 SK 35.09 40 Huenemann Geoff 319 SK 35.24 41 Walker Robert 1080 DK Kelly Westman 36.12 42 Mussell Chris 1084 DK Hellen Johnston 36.23 43 Joyce John 1240 SK 36.25 44 Ellis Colin 1250 SK 37.22 45 Coulter Gary 67 HPK 37.54 46 Smith Tony 41 37.59 47 Huang Bryan 1238 SK 38.18 48 King Andrew 1083 SK 38.57 49 Shepard Stu 12 SK 41.00 50 Dixon Nancy 1073 SK 41.46 51 Doxtador Sandee 1237 SK 42.14 52 Renagham Cley 18 SK 42.56 53 Goulet Diane 1053 DK Lise Malinowski 44.46 54 Rogers Lisa 1015 45.23 55 Whitehead Herb 29 SK 45.33 56 Fairburn Chritine 1242 DK Sophie Damieux 45.46
