{"id":1817,"date":"2007-11-10T03:16:06","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T02:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/paddler-lifestyle-articles\/jseiler\/green-race-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-11-10T03:16:06","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T02:16:06","slug":"green-race-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/green-race-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Race 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/n552472555_156087_1280.jpg\" title=\"Gorilla\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/n552472555_156087_1280.jpg\" alt=\"Gorilla\" height=\"540\" \/><\/a> Graham racing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/osb\/itemdetails.cfm?ID=147\">New Everest<\/a><br \/>\nLast weekend was the 12th annual Green River Narrows race. 124 racers made it out there Saturday at high noon to get fired up and race the Narrows home to the infamous Gorilla rapid(pictured above) in front of some 500 spectators. It was one of the best Green races to date with record times in almost every category. <!--more--><br \/>\nAndrew Holcombe walked away with the glass this year with a new record time 4:27. Pat Keller was only a second behind him in the long boat\u00c2\u00a0but\u00c2\u00a0won\u00c2\u00a0the Iron man, combined\u00c2\u00a0 long boat + short boat\u00c2\u00a0,\u00c2\u00a0setting a record\u00c2\u00a0time in the short boat class with a 4:40!!!<br \/>\nThere were a lot of fast people out there representing Pyranha. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/osb\/itemdetails.cfm?ID=147\">Everest<\/a> was a popular choice and looks to be a great boat for racing too! Shannon Carroll came out from California to race with some of the fastest girls around and ended up tieing for 1st place in the short boat class with Adriene Levknecht. Robin Betz was the fastest lady in the long boat with a new womens record 5:23.<br \/>\nI wish I had more pictures&#8230;these are some that I&#8217;ve stolen off the internet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/greenrace308.jpg\" title=\"pencil sharpener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/greenrace308.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"pencil sharpener\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOff the middle at pencil sharpener on my way to a personal best time of 4:59 and tied for 4th in the short boat. thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realasheville.com.\/\">www.realasheville.com<\/a>for the picture.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/outdoors.webshots.com\/photo\/2014845180034263094yqDRYW\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thumb14.webshots.net\/t\/64\/564\/8\/45\/18\/2014845180034263094yqDRYW_th.jpg\" alt=\"PB030189\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFusilli at Zwicks. thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/community.webshots.com\/user\/river0013\">river0013<\/a> for this shot up on their webshots<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/green-gorilla.jpg\" title=\"jeremy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"132\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/green-gorilla.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"jeremy\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJeremy Laucks spankin the monkey in his first Green Race. check out his story @ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasingrain.com\/nooz.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1194365518&amp;archive=&amp;start_from=&amp;ucat=2&amp;\">chasingrain.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/greenrace277.jpg\" title=\"Chan Jones boofing pencil sharpener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/greenrace277.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Chan Jones boofing pencil sharpener\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nChan Jones at Pencil Sharpener.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/greenrace250.jpg\" title=\"Nick\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/greenrace250.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Nick\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNick Urquhart racing the Everest off the Flying Squirel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/greenrace307.jpg\" title=\"racingintothegorilla\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/greenrace307.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"racingintothegorilla\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boatingbeta.com\/races\">Race Results<\/a><br \/>\nThanks to everybody who helps make this race happen year after year. check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvmvideo.com\/lvmTV.lasso?-search&amp;-Database=videos_mysql&amp;-Table=one&amp;-maxrecords=1&amp;id=LVM&amp;-SortField=week_of&amp;-SortOrder=Descending\">LVM TV<\/a> this week for a video of this years Green Race winners.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures from Shannon.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/l_0244221b60f473a6695967ff4c575fd5.jpg\" title=\"Pyranha people\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/l_0244221b60f473a6695967ff4c575fd5.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Pyranha people\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a> Team from left. Fusilli, me, nick urquhart, jay moffatt(front), billy jones, amos shuman, jeremy laucks, graham seiler, shannon carroll, chan jones, and drew walsh. Thanks to Kevin for herding cats and taking the picture.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/l_b6d3f82c1c6fe3e7327ba9c13ad5e716.jpg\" title=\"shannon below gorilla\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/l_b6d3f82c1c6fe3e7327ba9c13ad5e716.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"shannon below gorilla\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a> Shannon below Gorilla<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/l_266e80b52ef3665e5e85856fec00ef81.jpg\" title=\"graham@pencilsharpener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/l_266e80b52ef3665e5e85856fec00ef81.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"graham@pencilsharpener\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a> Graham in the Everest at Pencil sharpener<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/l_54c79879fc447bffc2250f84f10f3851.jpg\" title=\"grahaminthenotch\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/l_54c79879fc447bffc2250f84f10f3851.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"grahaminthenotch\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a> Graham in the notch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graham racing the New Everest Last weekend was the 12th annual Green River Narrows race. 124 racers made it out there Saturday at high noon to get fired up and race the Narrows home to the infamous Gorilla rapid(pictured above) in front of some 500 spectators. It was one of the best Green races to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/green-race-2007\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogroll","category-competition-reports","category-creeking-articles","category-paddler-lifestyle-articles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9tk9G-tj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}