August 24, 2009

Spanish SUP Championship Results

On Saturday we had a “short” distance race, we made it in about 45 mn

On Sunday we had a long distance race, about 25km , the first 12km were upwind with a small but naughty chop stoping the board after each stroke, the downwind part was more fun…

Here’s the times of the long distance race :

Xavi Masdeval, Hobie CR1 12′6 : 3h23mn17sec
Eric Terrien, Drops Style 12′ : 3h34mn20sec
José Luis Piñana, Coreban Cruiser 11′6 : 3h38mn02
Juan Caliz Camara, Drops Style 12′ : 3h51mn22sec
Fernando Labad Alday, Drops Style 10′11″ : 3h54mn05sec
Nacho Alvarez Daroca, Drops Style 12′ : 3h55mn39sec
Alfonso Amillo Torrano, Drops Style 12′ : 4h06mn30sec

I came 2nd in both races, Xavi Masdeval won the 2 races on his Hobie 12′6 CR1, he’s a really good paddler, I needed a much better board to be able to compete for the 1rst place…
I’ve done my best and I had a lot of fun, this is the main thing !!

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