Zedler Mill Race

We entered our first canoe race on Saturday April 26th supporting the Zedler Mill foundation. Our sponsor was "The Coffee Shop" in Lulling, TX. The race had several classes to race in including a pro class, novice class, Tri-County challenge and business class. We raced in the Business class with 28 other canoes. The race started with a LeMan's sprint to the boats. Our boat was #005 so we only had 4 boats to the left of us at the start. As we launched into the boat we had a boat hit us on the left rear. We quickly moved away from the boat and behind another canoe that turned sideways at the start of the race. Only one other boat was in front of us as we picked up speed and hit the fast moving water on the river right. We quickly passed the other boat and never looked back. Our race time came in at 1 hour 4 minutes. We ended up finishing almost 10 minutes ahead of the other boats. Our biggest success for the day was having a time only 21 seconds behind our friends Cindy and Mike who won the Tri county challenge. Congratulations to Cindy and Mike and to Deb Richardson for winning the womens solo challenge! Over all it was a successful race and we are excited for the Texas Water Safari prelim race this weekend. Thank you to Bob Spain for directing the race! We were also excited to have Brad and Coleen make it for the awards ceremony! Brad has volunteered to be our team captain starting next week with the Prelim race. He helped us out this weekend by getting our drink jugs rigged up so we can easily mix drink packets in them! We were happy to have Dillon and Jenny on the bank cheering us on! It is wonderful to have so many great people helping us out and supporting our racing adventures!