Sunset Bay

The Last regatta for the season went off with out a hitch ... ...well nearly without a hitch. The trip down to Mackay was a bit long but nice and we got to our hotel before dark which was nice. We had the sprints in the morning and the Marathon just after midday. Then I had the OC2 after at about 4:30. Well the day started off an hour late and went down hill from there, so there was not much chance of me doing my OC2 race on time but I had hoped to finish the race in daylight.
The Sprint went really well it was a 500m sprint and untill the 250 mark we were up with everyone else then we started to tire and dropped back a bit, but we still didn't come last. A time of 2min 4sec which is pretty Awesome.
The marathon went much the same way we were battling two other crews for the first kilometre or so then they started to pull away then we would make a charge and come back a bit get close. then the would pull away again. the good thing is that we finished 5th out of 8. There were 3 other boats that finished behind us. This is a big change we were only a little way off of coming third.
Racheal and I did reasonably well in the OC2 race but i was stuffed by this time and couldn't paddle the way I should've but we didn't come last and we didn't fall out.
I got paddler of the month from Maggie Island Paddlers and Had a fun presentation. It ended up being a really fun it's a bit of a pity that that was the last regatta for the year. Oh well train up and start blitzing them next season.
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