Lienz

Hallo!

We left on wednesday from Plattling to Lienz! With Van team consisting of Adam Ramadam, Bren Orton, Thomas Dunphy, Martin Koll, Sam Ward and me! We had a stop in Monachium where we picked up our last member - Hannes and stop for short.. lets say a bit longer then we planned at beginning. We had some awesome party time in Monachium which will for sure stay in our memories for long long time! We continued our journey Thursday morning we continued our journey. We got to Lienz where we met already Capko and some German friends. Despite our tiredness we jumped on the water which was so cold giving headache with every roll! On friday almost everybody was there also as rest of our friends from plattling - Orky , Barry and Gerd!

I decided to start in C1 category also! But becouse of lack of paddlers and rules which didn't allow to swap boats between paddlers we prepared Thomases Kayak for my c1 start! We put some foam to seat on so i could knee at seat and some straps that were holding me, looked really sick but it worked! Despite few big bruises but it was so fun!

So it started with k1 eliminations, which after i came 2nd after Gerd, Thomas was 3rd, Peter 4th and Martin 6th. After that i had break for one category and then c1 prelims came. I made loop and came at 3rd place! Was so happy! Then little break again and semifinals time, which after Gerd was 1st, Me 2nd, Peter 3rd, Martin 4th and Honza Spindler 5th. Unfortunetly Thom dropped at 6th place, but still we had awesome crew for finals. But before K1 i had C1 finals. I was already tired and after one of my straps gone tried to roll like 6 times and got flushed downstream 300m and had to run back for next starts. I finished up at 4th place in C1 which gave me alot of fun but after this i was so tired. Just one category break and it was K1M finals time. I really wanted to do my best but it was simply too much of starts for me this day and it was notice able in my paddling. I thought my 3rd run might be top one, but my moves finished mostly sideways. So final result was Peter Csonka 1st, Gerd Serrasolses 2nd, Martin Koll 3rd, Me 4th and Honza Spindler 5th. It was awesome final with some huge runs in there! After that we had really nice meal and party after that! That was really nice trip !

On sunday morning we went back to our camp in plattling where we met alot of new people who came for training! Now after very sunny day it started to rain again and forecast says that there will be some huge showers which might give us really big water level!


Stay in Tune!

Bartosz