Tonight's race again took place on Deer Lake and consisted of a 2.5 km run followed by a 10 km paddle. Racers completed the course then names were drawn to match partners. Today's winners were Kiran and Jeff follwed by Jim/Darrell in 2nd place, Heide/Dan in 3rd and Conor/John in 4th.
This afternoon some of the BCKC masters group took advantage of the outdoors opportunities provided by living in our Vancouver paradise. Following our morning paddling or biking session a few of us headed up to Mount Seymour for an afternoon hike. John, Jeff, Katja and Dan stand on top of the 3rd Peak of Mnt Seymour, 1453 m above sea level. The round trip distance was 9 km which took about 3 hours, aided by the black flies that chased us down the mountain. Yesterday a group of BCKCers took part in the Tour de Indian Arm, a 17 km ocean race. BCKCers Micky and Jeff finished 3rd in mens HPDK paddling a double Fenn Mako surf ski, John partnered with Ben to finish 4th in mens HPDK paddling a Fanfare K2 while Katja and Heide finished 1st in womens DK paddling an Accord K2.
Burnaby Lake is now so full of weeds that the Monday Knight race was moved to nearby Deer Lake. The goose poop covering the beach is a minor inconvenience to enjoy the relatively weed free paddling on Deer Lake. Tonight's race was a 2 km run followed by a 6.5 km paddle. The race was won by Darrell, John, Heide (run) and Katja (paddle) followed by the team of Rebecca, Dan and Jeff.
BCKCers Rebecca, Emily, Kiran, Jim, Conor, Lynn, Katja, Hugh, Daryl and Jeff participated in one of the biggest western regattas in Regina over the Canada Day long weekend. Pictured above is the home base tent city occupied by the CanoeKayak BC team. The CKBC womens war canoe team, coxed by Jim, put on a great performance finishing 3rd in a very tight 500m race. Katja and BC coaches Lynn, Sara and Ashley teamed up to race the 200m K4 finishing 3rd in a competitive field. BC entered both mens and womens teams in the war canoe events, putting in good showings even though war canoe is a very under-utilized discipline at BC clubs. Hopefully the positive experiences of the athletes will foster movements to increase BC clubs' focus on war canoe paddling.