Kenduskeag SPRINT - Sunday, April 20

[Jeff Owen]

The inaugural running of the Kenduskeag Sprint is this Sunday. What better way to loosen sore muscles and work up an appetite for Easter Dinner?!?!?! Orono High School's GoActive! racing team is hosting this informal event and the team is hopeful that many MaCKRO members and guests will show up to compete and volunteer. The water level by Sunday noon should be great!

Details from the MaCKRO Race Schedule:

Sunday, April 20
Race: Kenduskeag Sprint at Shopping Cart
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Shopping Cart rapids on the Kenduskeag Stream
Type: WW, ~300 yards through two Class 2 or Class 3 rapids (depending on water level)
Point Series: DR Race #5 of 9
Registration: Free with ACA membership #, $5 per racer (includes ACA fee). Registration 0pens at 12 noon at the park on river right below Shopping Cart.
Contact: Jeff Owen,
866-8518, [e-mail]
Other Information:
1. Your race result will be the better of two runs.
2. At the pre-race meeting at 12:45 the participants will be divided into two groups. Group 1 will race first and
run safety second. Group 2 will run safety first and race second. Participants competing in multiple divisions will race all of their divisions in one group.
3. Hard-shell helmets required.

[clayton]

I will be there Jeff.

This is the site of the Kenduskeag Slalom race on May 3 & 4.
Try this sprint, and consider attending the slalom race in a few weeks.
The weather and water will be delightful. You will have a chance to meet some skilled WW paddlers and try a new type of paddling in a safe environment. Laurie Sproul will host a beginners clinic, and there will be a less challenging course for beginners.
There will be a combined downriver/slalom race aimed at MaCKRO downriver paddlers. Race 20 minutes from Bull's Eye Bridge to shopping cart Sat at 4 pm, then combine that time with the better of 2 slalom runs on Sunday. You have to use the same boat in both events.

I will be putting up a few wires and strings across the river at Shopping cart Sunday before &/or after the race, to hang some gates on in preparation of a Bill Green's ME Outdoors feature on slalom racing. Bill will be in Bangor on wed. 4/30 to record video of paddlers in slalom gates for broadcast the next week.