{"id":1808,"date":"2006-04-02T19:20:48","date_gmt":"2006-04-02T19:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2006-04-02T19:20:48","modified_gmt":"2006-04-02T19:20:48","slug":"ycc-extreme-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/?p=1808","title":{"rendered":"YCC Extreme Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">After a season on dry rivers and cries of when is it going to rain the first YCC Extreme race was party to the highest conditions any of us had seen on the Upper Tees.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Organiser X Pres colluded with colleagues and hastily revised his original grand master plan and broke the river down into sections on which to run the heats, 4 boats per heat.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The racing was unforgiving with boats and blades clashing in the fast water conditions, Nice Guy Tony endorsed his new handle by easing up at the finish on&nbsp;the second leg, giving PK the opportunity of taking the glory.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">By the time we reached the S bends, a rapid we are all familiar with the river had risen again since earlier inspection and the bold line straight down the centre was looking&nbsp;pretty unappealing, a severe beating could ensue if anyone had got it a bit pete tong here.&nbsp; After inspection it was agreed that rather than run it as a group race of 6 it would be prudent to run it in normal river running style to make sure everyone got down in one piece, there was only one&nbsp;entry line and straying off it would mean a big beating for the unfortunate soul.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">PK led our group down&nbsp;in what I can only describe as big water conditions, check out the photo of Nice Guy Tony, disappearing into the white stuff, thats a big boat and he&#8217;s no pie eater, Lyndon got tickled half way down but avoided the role, whilst Molly pushed too far left and took her ticket for a rough ride down.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Thanks to X Pres for organising, H for scoring and results, Badger for&nbsp;pictures and everyone for putting safety on<\/p>\n<p>PK on line<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"480\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/IMG_6690.JPG\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PK, looking where he wants to go rather than the sky<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"480\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/IMG_6693.JPG\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pipesy at a jaunty angle<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"480\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/IMG_6694.JPG\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lyndon powers through<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"480\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/IMG_6696.JPG\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Indian getting a face full<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"480\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/IMG_6697.JPG\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ooooo that left shoulder is high<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"480\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/IMG_6700.JPG\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tickle on line<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"480\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/IMG_6704.JPG\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nice Guy Tony<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"480\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/IMG_6710.JPG\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NGT subbing out<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"480\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/IMG_6712.JPG\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Molly starting to go squirrely<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"480\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/IMG_6714.JPG\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p>For more pictures and some video clips, thanks to Sean:<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=4954366841716190840&#038;pl=true\">http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=4954366841716190840&amp;pl=true<\/a><\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/smespics.fotopic.net\/c913468.html\">http:\/\/smespics.fotopic.net\/c913468.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a season on dry rivers and cries of when is it going to rain the first YCC Extreme race was party to the highest conditions any of us had seen on the Upper Tees. Organiser X Pres colluded with colleagues and hastily revised his original grand master plan and broke the river down into &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/?p=1808\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;YCC Extreme Race&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canoeing-kayaking"],"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}