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It's early on a sunday
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Lots of race lineups for the day
Prizes were awarded 10th position onwards
not all are lucky to stay balanced thou.
Racing untested hand made rafts can be a challenge in the river
The day ended with a time record broken
& they are off!
The "Mt Fuji Blossom tree" raft
1 min+ for the track team!
A clean finish! (wheres the competition?)
& we have a collision!
not to mention splashes
Display of the rafts
Next was the walking on water event
Safety Ready
The media race event
theres no obligation to dangle $8k of camera over the water too
rafts made their way in & out here
& man were the finals fast!
that kept all of us very much entertained
till the next raft event!
Prize presentation
1st...
& here we are at SRRR06
Timers ready
& hey where we tried after 4 full hours of timings
Theres even awards for best looking, innovative rafts.
& we are the official timers!
& Track & field came in second overall
& even broke last year's record with a timing of 61s (from 86s) Crowning the grand trophy for track & field!
Where we literally walk on water!
tracks won the 1st position again!
we have races not only on local opens, but international opens as well
there we lots of conjestions
A good race, next year, we would be competing again & better...
It's a nice sunny day