Designed by Johnny Bling.  Thank him if you win one!

Jerry,

The NRS instructions look pretty good.  I have a couple of comments:

The form should be at least 2” thick.  If you don’t have 2” thick mincell or ethafoam, you can use pink building insulating foam.  Wrap a couple of layers of plastic wrap tightly around the form  and hold the wrap in place with tape.

Push the form into place from insi…[Read more]

The actual course is 30 feet by 40 feet.  The 50 foot dimension refers to the minimum recommended length of the pool itself  – you need some space between the gates and the end of the pool.  I would say 5 feet is too tight.  I’m guessing that the standard distance for the backstroke flag poles is 5 yards from each end, since that is about what the…[Read more]

Twenty hardy (foolhardy?) paddlers and several supporters braved the icy roads to attend the pool slalom on Sunday.  For some of us, maneuvering around the stalled and stranded cars on the highway was much more challenging than negotiating the pool slalom course.

68 timed runs were recorded with Joe Sartori logging the only sub-2 minute runs.  R…[Read more]

The reason for the difference is that this particular USACE graph is stuck at 0900 Nov 7.  This graph constantly has problems with dropping offline or missing readings from the gauge.

The NWS graph is generally more reliable though you can see it is currently missing data from Nov 6 to Nov 8.

This USACE Roselle graph below is more reliable.…[Read more]

We are working on the results and will have them ready in (hopefully) a couple of days.  If you are wondering how we can award medals and still be “working on the results” – after each day’s racing we do have complete results which are used to award medals.  Back home after the race, we do a check of all the judging sheets vs what is entered in t…[Read more]

David,

Congratulations!  You were first in the <10 feet class with a time of 30:57.

I will mail you your medal and race tshirt soon.

Fastest overall time in the downriver race was Levi in the >10 feet class with a time of 27:19.

As noted above, the club will have an info table at the Expo this weekend, March 2/3/4.  Any volunteers to staff the table, please sign up below:

Friday:  6:00 PM to 9:00 PM – Chris Matsuno

Saturday:  10:00 AM – 1:00 PM – Chris Matsuno

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM –

4:00 PM – closing  –

Sunday:  11:00 AM – 2:00 PM  –

2:00 PM – closing – Chris Matsu…[Read more]

Location:  the pool (building 63) is in the building with the gray roof, next to the building with the brown roof (the gym).  It’s on the west side of the hospital complex.

https://www.google.com/maps/search/building+63+va+medical+center,+jefferson+barracks,+mo/@38.4964722,-90.2843759,183m/data=!3m1!1e3

All sign up is on race day.  There are some Team River Runner boats and paddles at the pool, but I don’t know specifically what models they are.

The pool slalom is on – Super Bowl Saturday, Feb 3.

The building should be open at 7:00-ish for us to start setting up the course.  Any help would be appreciated.  The faster we get set up, the faster we can start racing.  Generally the course is ready around 9:00.  We will have some practice time – maybe 30 minutes, then begin timed runs…[Read more]

As far as I know, we have approval from the VA to hold the pool slalom on Super Bowl Saturday.

The usual schedule applies.  Setup ~7:30-9:00, practice runs for a while, then race until you are tired.  Volunteers needed to help set up and time.  (Racers are expected to help also.)

More details to follow.

2 more Monday slackerz made two runs today (one upstream, one downstream).

zero at 1100 hours, -3″ at 1600 hours.  Guess we used up all the water.

Matt,

Your description fits the bag I found.  I’m not sure of the next time I will be down at the river.  I’ll be at the Clinic if you are going to be there and can wait that long.  Otherwise, I live near the airport – we can arrange to meet somewhere.

PS:  Sorry, but I gave away the granola bar in the bottom of the bag – that was the only thin…[Read more]