They couldn t get either of their boats started. Except that Richard tried to salvage his helmet while I hit hyper speed and did a nice cartwheel ejection, giving his boat the finish line accolades without him, I looked back and left him, letting Course Marshal Randy pick up the remains of the day, it was the biggest cheering section heard all day from the crowd. I think it should be an annual event. Especially all those great pumped biceps that stick out of lifejackets with helmet less faces . The news about Allessander Lenzis injury reaffirms the risk and the gains that these athletes are willing to pursue for the chosen creative and athletic professions.
Sleep sounds like the best payment and a luxurious temptation.
Making our job ghostly as we struggled against the odds, one more time. Our story is sometimes silent and unknown, frustration can run high, and we are usually the first contact a very frustrated racer meets, making a psychology degree almost necessary, along with a degree in debriefing stress factors and bacterial infections from polluted waterways, we see our share of negativity. And for some racers, very expensive. Campfire dinners of trailer and truck collisions, fires and flips. Road travel is serious business, tramping across the country twice and for some world travels continental switches.