I'm not doing any racing or any real training these days, but a number of my friends are, so here's a photo I lifted from the Face Book page of my friend Mike Herbert of Rogers, Arkansas. He participated in the Freedom Race in Missouri on Saturday, and this is what he wrote about it:
Great day to be racing. The Freedom race is a 63 mile trip down the beautiful Missouri River. We had almost ideal conditions with only a slight but persistent headwind with only one barge to deal with. Got the solo surfski win and was 3rd overall behind 7-man Joe’s boat and one good double surfski. Christel shuttled me with Nebo waiting at the finish line!
"Joe's boat" was an 7-person craft led by race director Joe Mann. The "one good double surfski" was paddled by my friend Scott Cummins, with whom I paddled and camped in Kentucky a couple of weeks ago, and a guy named Jeff Behrns. Christel? That would be Mike's wife, while Nebo is another very important member of his family, his dog.
Mike covered the 63 miles in six hours, 10 minutes. He got some help from the river's flow, but not as much as he in a previous year when he clocked five hours, 39 minutes. Even that latter time is longer than I care to be sitting in a boat competing, but like I said, these days I'm not racing and Mike is, so Mike has the right to do whatever he wants.
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