{"id":1626,"date":"2007-08-29T12:52:50","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T11:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/paddler-lifestyle-articles\/myoung\/us-wildwater-nationals\/"},"modified":"2007-08-29T12:52:50","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T11:52:50","slug":"us-wildwater-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/us-wildwater-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"US Wildwater Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/wwnats2.jpg\" title=\"wwnats2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/wwnats2.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"wwnats2.jpg\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/wwnats1.jpg\" title=\"wwnats1.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/wwnats1.jpg\" title=\"wwnats1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I took the Speeder to US\u00c2\u00a0Wildwater Nationals on the Deerfiled River\u00c2\u00a0over the weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 It was different kind of competition for me.\u00c2\u00a0 I had a great time, and took down the rest of the plastic boats with the help of my good friend the Speeder.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">On Friday I took three practice runs down the course, which proved to be a mistake because I was kind of tired for the sprints on Saturday.\u00c2\u00a0 I persevered and won both sprint runs in the plastic boat class.\u00c2\u00a0 I was fast enough to take 4th even amongst the compisite boats.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00c2\u00a0On Sunday we had one run down a longer course.\u00c2\u00a0 After 10:42 of paddling as hard as I could I thought my heart was going to pump out of my chest.\u00c2\u00a0 It turns out I was the fastest plastic boat and the overall plastic boat category.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00c2\u00a0Wildwater racing is fun and the Speeder kicks Butt.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/wwnats3.jpg\" title=\"wwnats3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/wwnats3.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"wwnats3.jpg\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/wwnats4.jpg\" title=\"wwnats4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/wwnats4.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"wwnats4.jpg\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">All photos by Patrick Rogers<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took the Speeder to US\u00c2\u00a0Wildwater Nationals on the 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