Hey readers, back again at the end of my second week at Keeners.
After another week has past I continue to improve my paddling skills and building relationships with my fellow Keeners. With my shoulder back to 100% and getting lots of time to rest on the weekend I was reading to tackle week 2. The highlights began on race day when we had a relay race through the Mcoys rapids. But the exchange between our second and third racer went bad and all hope of winning the race had been diminished. Further down river at the Lauren we had yet another race yet this time the race was timed one after another my team and I ran the pipeline touching a coaches boat on the right shore then ferrying across to the moby dick rock and touching another coaches boat. Story of my life out of 5 teams my team and I came last yet again with a time of 4mins 22secs. As the winning team achieved a time of 3mins 53secs.
Big water bacon beatdown Thursday sucked for me missing both of my lines and simply floating downstream with no resistance both times!! Things picked up for me again on Friday with competition day after about 15 surfs in morning practice I was beginning to get get tired of the same thing over and over. So my coach Steve-o and I devised the plan that I would hand surf into pushbutton and while on the wave I would throw Steve-o a throw rope while he sits in an eddy up stream. After three failures in succession i decided to give up on the idea, especially after Steve-o said "you have not yet developed the level of tom foolery needed". After the episode of failure was over I still decided to spend the rest of the morning session hand surfing achieving more and more failure. This wrapped up the week and perpared me for antother weekend of rest.
Till next time, Aidan
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