Ashuelot Race 5/7

Here are just a few photos from the Ashuelot river race up in Keene NH from 5/7, kind of old but finally getting them up here on the blog. They were taken by a spectator Kelly, and she does a great job with catching the race.  This river is one of the most beautiful spots to paddle on and even more fun to race on. It starts out nice and windy and a little shallow up in the center of Keene NH, and then opens up down below to a wider still shallow river that meanders through fields. We did the pro race which is a 20 mile course mostly downstream with a buoy turn at the finish, then you paddle upstream for a good while, turning to finish downstream at the place where the buoy turn was made earlier.

Waiting patiently at the start of the race

Good portage for TnT shortly after the start, 2nd place at this point in time

Just after the portage we are about to head under the bridge with people hot on our tails!!!

After 2 hours and 19 minutes of paddling it was neck and neck for 4-5th place with Dennis and Emma

They got us right at the end!!!!

GPS view of the course but only the down stream portion, you turn and paddle back up in the pro race and then turn at the red covered bridge to head back down.

So we finished out the race really happy with our effort (even those Dennis and Emma nabbed us at the end haha) and decided to paddle back up stream to town where our car was. I cant recall the exact time but it was about a 4 hour day on the water total with 2 of the hours at racing pace. Great training day for the soon to come 70 Miler we just completed this past Memorial day weekend.

*Just a note on this blog post, all of these awesome photos of the race came from other paddlers or paddlers significant others. Thank you for the blog materials!!! :)