Standup4Greatbear Presentations and SUP Racing

This week i have been busy with presentations on Standup4Greatbear and a little bit of racing. Thursday night I presented at the new Escape Route in Squamish. Owner, James Retty, asked if i would be interested in presenting there to the Squamish crowd. We had a good turnout and it was a fun evening sharing the story of the GreatBear and the risks of having oil tankers on our coast.  Last night I was in Vancouver at Ecomarine on Granville Island speaking with the Pipedreams Project, a group of four kayakers who are paddling from Vancouver to Kitimat this fall to protest the pipeline as well. It was great to see so many friends out support the presentation and standing up for their coastline. Thanks to everyone who was there to support.

I also got out to race my Surftech Joe Bark SUP at the first ever Squamish Paddling Club twoonie race on Saturday night. It was a 7 km race and we started at the Mamquam Blind Channel at the Adventure and paddled out past Nexxen Beach into a very strong headwind. The conditions were challenging but fun and the downwind section allowed me to make up a lot of time. Downwind is where these SUP's really excel. They are designed to be surfed in big swell and wind chop. You will be hard pressed to find a race where you paddle upwind on an SUP but i thought it would be fun to just be involved with the paddling community on this twoonie race.

Tonight is more conditioning with Jen's men's class and tomorrow night Jen and I will be heading to Deep Cove to race our SUP's at their 7 pm event.