Ted Houk Regatta Seattle June 13-14, 2009

For the forth or fifth time in a row BCKC took a trailer full of boats (we just got our NEW trailer thanks to Dave with lots of room for ours and FLCC's boats) and atheletes down to Seattle to participate in the Ted Houk Memorial Regatta put on by the Seattle Canoe and Kayak Club. Their race course on Green Lake is one of the best in the Pacific Northwest reagion and the host club always puts on a great event with lots of racing and a potluck dinner on Saturday nigthts. This year we had great warm weather and even the legendary cross wind at the 500m mark did stay away. 8 BCKC paddlers competed: High Performance athletes Jim, Nic, Sebastian, Kristin, Kiran and Rebecca teamed up with Masters athletes Darrell and Katja. The girls sure dominated the Open Women devision with Kristin almost winning all her races (except for the one where she teamed up with the oldie). Many of the parents were cheering on the athletes from the sideline and provided trasnportation - thanks to Dave, Vicki, Kamal and Diane.Full results can be found here: http://www.seattlecanoeclub.org/race-results

Matching K2 teams before the Open Women K2 1000m race: Kiran, Katja, Rebecca, Kristin

Jim, Nic and Sebastian teamed up with FLCC paddler Elliot for the Open Men K4 1000m and put on a stellar performance

Darrell fighting hard in the Open Men K1 1000m heat - here head to head with Ridge paddler Mike.

Lining up for the 5k race at 7:30am on Sunday morning - 50 paddlers started together in each group, 3 groups starting withing a couple minutes of each other. That makes for a crowded race course.

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