Second national rafting event

The second nationals rafting event was held on the Ash river in the free state. Explorers had two teams, a ladies and mens.
I headed down with the second load of people to meet up with the already-had-some-ob's early bunch.

The first event was slalom, the event we are generally worst at however this time we came good. The slalom course was on the rapid below the grade 5, where Cameron McIntosh has setup gates. The course was really well setup and a really challenging but doable slalom. We got there early to put in a practice run, just as well because the run went to pot. Our first run was fairly solid but we still misted a few gates. On the second run we hit all but one gate and ended up third overall in the event. Team FTRM cleaned up in the event hitting overly gate flawlessly. The girls put in a solid performance to come second.

In sprint a head to head paddle down a rapid we fared a little better and come in second overall. Once again Bruce's FTRM team took us, but not without a bit of a fight. The girls came in second to the strong Mary's angels.

Downriver was held on Sunday, as the name suggests it is a race down the river. At this event it was done by time trial, each team leaving in 15 minute intervals. Once again we came second overall and the ladies second in there class. This event is a test of endurance and ability to run rapids down the fastest line while fatigued.
After the event Gareth and Justin in a croc and Dave and myself in kayaks ran the same downriver stretch, all went more or less to plan. A bridge the croc ran the rapid, they made it.... to the second drop then swam. They just managed to get into the boat before the muncher hole at the bottom, which sucked them back. Gareth fell out the boat and managed to pull it out the feature. Both paddles where in the water, luckily on landed in an eddy and washed up to me, but the other floated down the river with Dave in hot pursuit.

The event was awesome, thanks to Bruce, Hillary and Kate for organising it.

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