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Green race results:

Scott McClusky/Cascade - 5:06
Brian Miller/Cascade - 5:53
Jay Ditty/Response - 5:53
Chris Houston/Matrix - 6:09

Eli Helbers/Tareau - 9:01

Pat won both Long and Short boat classes with a 4:36 in his longboat and a 4:54 in the short!

Cluck set a new C1 record, 5:06 got him 10th overall, out of 125 racers! Let's get some more C1's and a few OC's out there next year!!!!!

Full results available at www.spotyourlanding.com

Here's some pics...
http://www.downstreamphoto.com/GreenRiv ... River.html

Eli's OC1 time ?

I love it! I especially like:
http://www.photoreflect.com/scripts/prs ... 000R040039

Jay, can you tell us about your run?

Alden

The race was a lot of fun. it was good to see some other C-boaters out there. it's a super intense race experience, with a lot of moves linked together very quickly. I hadn't been to the Green in about 4 years, but luckily got 2 runs in on Friday to remind me of the lines. The Response is a real fast boat, but not ideal for the Green, a little bit too unpredictable when bouncing down slides and requires a lot of power to keep the nose up and out of piton situations.
I had a nice even pace through everything from Frankenstein all the way down to the Squeeze. (i banged down the right hand sneak rather than running the Go Left move). Then continued fast all the way down and through the notch. Then I screwed up the launch at gorilla (a little too far left and no momentum off the lip), flipped and crashed all the way through the speed trap, rolled up in the eddy, turned into the next slide and didn't have the momentum to drive through into the next drop and eddied out on the right. once i was stuffed in this eddy, my arms were just about done. came out of it after some time and went down Nies's Pieces and caught another unintentional eddy. After this I was able to motor on down to the finish. My 2 practice runs had gone real well through Gorilla and the slides, but this section ended up costing me a bunch of time on race day. can't wait to try again next year. Scott has set a pretty tough mark to beat.
by the way, that picture you mentioned Alden, is one of the most fun moves anywhere, with hundreds of screaming people watching, driving as hard as you can at the left wall boof, which drops you immediately into the entrance to the notch and gorilla, with very little energy left in your arms after sprinting for 3 minutes at top speed. it's a handful.

Jay, that is a sick picture! Nice boof! Or it looks like it could be a nice boof!

very cool - did you go for the "one stroke eddy" eddy between the Notch and the Pad (like Will), or just run her direct?

I wonder if I'd do that left line at Pencil Sharpener (like in your picture). I wonder if it's just faster to do the center boof - plus I've accidentally freewheeled that darn left boof.

Either way, congrats on the run. McClesky's time is awesome - 5:06 - he must have been hammering!

Alden

i just ran it direct, which is usually faster, unless you screw it up like i did.
to run directly, you drive hard and keep your nose up as you go through the notch, then as you skip across the "brain mirror", you throw an off-side back stroke to pull your bow around to the left, which lines you up perfectly for the launch pad. you have to be real quick about that back stroke. if you don't drive hard enough, the brain mirror will stall you out a bit and push you into the left wall, which is okay, you just have to then pull yourself away from the wall and regain your momentum as you head toward the launch pad (which i didn't do in the race).

Jay,
Anyone who races the Green Narrows in a dam Dagger Response is my ----ing hero!
Alden

Alden,
I stood right below pencil sharpener on RL and held a rope all day. I think the left line is fast if you run it right, don't "freewheel" and don't go deep. It sets you up for the notch better, and looks faster when aced by someone like Andrew Holcomb. Pat ran the center line as did Toby and several other quick finishers. Tommy ran left and his line was really fast. Thomas Oliver ran left, flipped/"freewheeled," broke his paddle and swam. Luckly we fished him out as his feet were dangling about 8-10 feet above the Notch! He was pretty psyched about that, as you could imagine.
Will

I heard you guys made quite an efficient rescue there just above the Notch. This summer my friend pinned in the left line at Pencil Sharpener and we made a somewhat similar rescue. That little "cove" on river left just above the Notch . . . I sometimes wonder if guys like Tommy and Pat even worry about flipping over when they go through Pencil Sharpener or the Notch . . . probably not! It's probably like me just running down the Ocoee or something!

That must have killed you to be watching and not racing.
Alden

Whereas it would kill many of the rest of us to be paddling that stuff and not just watching from afar!

I can't believe how good so many people are. It makes me happy and sad all at the same time.

PY.

Anyone seen that new commercial with Lebron James and his three other "family members" (all played by him) in the swimming pool? One of the funniest commercials I've ever seen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMDWPQAo ... ed&search=

I especially love the line that his "father" yells out: "Training in a pool? How you gonna get through Detroit training in a pool? You think Michael trained in a pool? I don't think so!"

(I'm only making this post so that I can use this joke next time I see one of you guys. By the way, how you gonna get through Scott McClesky by posting on cboats? You think Tommy posted on cboats? I don't think so. And stop looking at my lemonade!")

Alden

The fact that 2 of the 3 fastest C1ers on the Green were in a Cascade is a testament to how that boat behaves on steep creeks. It is predictable, steady, capable and fast . That's what I recollect from my own experiences. Maybe I shouldn't have sold my Cascade .
SYOTR,
Bruce