How to Win and Lose on Race Day by Saul Glick

It’s you’ve ever been to keeners you’ll know that every Wednesday is race day, full of competition, teamwork, and fun. During the day you partake in many fun races that can be anything from timed individual runs to relay races around McCoys. For me most of them went really smoothly, except for the ones that didn’t. One of these races was on Garb. We were each timed to see who could finish the course and high five Heidi the fastest. Most people did very well at this race. However, the same cannot be said for me. I was having a pretty good run until I couldn’t find Heidi and missed the eddy. I think spent the next 10 minutes working my butt off trying to get that high five but just couldn’t make it. But, I still managed to have a pretty fun time running the race and I think that’s what counts. The other race that I failed at was a legs out team race down Blacks where I unfortunately ran into my own teammate and flipped only about halfway down the rapid. I then proceeded to climb onto my flipped over boat and float down praying that this time I would get to the finish line which was once again, a high five from Heidi. In the end my boat floated away and thankfully, I had a team of people go and save my gear for me. To conclude, I had a super fun day kayaking and racing and I had a smile on my face the entire time. But, I sadly never got a high five from Heidi.