Paddlewisers, I looked through the www.kayakathon.com website with much interest, because I'd love to compete in a multi-day, coastal kayak racing event. However, aside from safety issues and all of the TV hoopla, over a month of around 50 mile days, even with an occasional day off, sounds like a grind. A week or two of it could be fun, but even if one could average 4-5 knots the whole time, that's a lot of 10-13 hours days of paddling. Not even the Tour de France is that grueling, and adventure races are typically only 4-10 days. With drive time to and from the event, and doing the event, people would be looking at taking 1 1/2 months off. Very few working people can't make those kind of arrangements. My guess is this event is way over dreamed, but then again, people can be surprising. I'd like to see how it turns out. Duane Strosaker Southern California *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Jan 18 2004 - 20:01:26 PST
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