The Best Race Day Yet by Ava Christensen

During the Monday and Tuesday of the second week of keeners a lot of the kids are were in swift water rescue. This means there was a smaller group of kids who sere returning keeners that did race day. This is the day where we do different types of races on multiple rapids. This past race day was my favorite so far out of all the sessions I have been to. In the morning our group went up to McCoys where we had a race from the top, touch the right shore,  head to the island at the top of the football eddy where we would then get out of our boats and high five Clay Wright. We had the option of doing two runs which was beneficial because we could now improve on the things that might have slowed us down in our previous runs. The next race began in the middle of the island with the added challenge of running to our boats and bringing it to the water and paddling it to the right shore through horseshoe. After this we went down to grab for another race. This one was a mas start where we had to go around the Moby Dick rock and touch the right shore. As we went through the rapid many keeners flipped over, got paddled over, but rolled up and sprinted to the other side of the river. Later in the day we had a keener classic, the beachball races. These are where we paddle through rapids such as norman's and coliseum hitting beach balls with our paddle as a mass start. Some times during the races beach balls will get stuck in eddies, boils, and possibly surf.