Distance race today was HOT and LONG haha,
So the race went down like this from where i was. As far as the Elite was the Men where on 14ft and Women on 12'6ft. You could still enter any class but the Elite had special board lengths this year and it seemed to work great.
Started fast and hard, felt great. The guys took off so fast and so did annabell, amazing.
The half way mark felt like it was taking forever to get to.
Close to the half way turning can for me i see Danny Ching already going back past towards finish, HOLY crap this guy had no one else even anywhere close to him. Amazing to see.
The next bunch of guys, i can see Jake, Beau and Jacko with the likes of Connor, kai, chase etc.. All paddling super hard.
The next group behind them i see Annabell!!!! I couldn't believe it and i think most of the boys around her couldn't believe either
I could still see Brandi and a few other of the top females in sight but i knew i wasn't gonna catch them.
Closer to the finish about 2km to go the Heat started to get to me and my arms blew up hahaha but i couldn't complain finishing 9th in Elite Girls.
In all Danny smashed it finishing minutes ahead before the next Elite male and Annabel did the same.
I do think they need to bring in some sort of drafting rule such as a female on a 12'6 shouldn't be allowed to draft guys on a 14ft, there was a fair bit of this happening today but you can't stop it i guess.
Good results by everyone from home.
XX angie
