I'd hope so, that picture looks like your in pain

Great pictures.

Very cool photos

Piros said...

Super pics Al , looks like you are hurting just carrying the board to the water amazing backdrop absolutely beautiful. Looks very cold how were your feet and how did you go in the race ?

I am not in pain it's just that I fell twice and my non neoprene gloves were super slippery. On the pic I am just try hard for the board not to drop on the ground!
I missed the start by 200mtr... (I know I could believe it!) but got 8th at the end. I was really worth it because I don't think they'll do it again.
As soon as you paddle you are not cold it's just before the start and after thre finish line
We even had some anti terrorist brigade following us all the way in case one of the paddler would have had the idea to let himself explode with a bomb under a paris bridge. You would have loved it!




But the cool thing is that we had gps gtrackers on us so you could follow the race live. Or you can even replay it now and if you choose fast forward you can see the all thing in 5 mn. Just go to geolive on this link

http://www.mygeolive.com/geoPortal.aspx?pid=2&sid=c2fbe4ba-0906-4982-b1ef-663322da4c01&lang=en

CMC said...

What a cool feature the GPS things. Funny before the race, everyone just walking around on the bank. I fast forwarded a bit and they were half finished.

And we are still using paper and pens to record races here in Australia???

you have to change the zoom on the timeline because it is set up for 1 hour originally so with the prerace you don't get all the race but if you move the zoom to get 2hours you'll be able to watch all the race
You have to cilck on the magnifier next to the time line (left) and then the windows with timeline zoom level pops up
no more pens mate

Took a while to sort it but that was so cool.Did you get to meet the Australian girl in the race.

LizGuilhaus said...

Loved the footage. What an amazing experience for you. Must have been quite cold. I did this route mid winter on a barge a few yrs ago and was well rugged up! Why do you think it will be a singular event? Just curious.

lots of safety issues but maybe they'll overcome that