Last weekend of september was held the final event from the series of Alpin River Cup.
We hosted it in Cunovo- Slovakia, in our local playspot. Paddlers from Austria, Germany, Poland and Czech were gather during the whole week. Friday evening all the participants had free training on the slalom withe water course. Me and Peter we were quite tried from the trainings before and as the organizers we had too much work to paddle. We were beg for nice weather at least for not raining. Saturday was quite nice day. No rain, warm enough and no wind. Perfect for our competition! Morning started with the qualifications of mens, C1 and women. K1 men semifinal was afternoon. After that we did qualification runs of kayak cross. There was one gate, where the paddlers had to go trough. It was so fun to watch their fighting. For saturday evening we invite good group to play on our kayak party.
Sunday morning we woke up early because of horrible noise of strong wind. We had to take down all the tents which we set up for judges and music equipment. It even started to rain so we almost had to canceled the finals. Fortunately it stopped to rain so we decided to continue in event. It was a big task because we couldn’t use the tents, music or microphone… Wind was so strong that it was blowing out the paddlers from hole. I started to be a bit nervous before final so my rides wasn’t as I wished but finally I won with my last ride. Peter did almost same like me. His first two rides wasn’t very good but his last ride was amazing! he scored over thousand points! Peter become a Slovak champion ten times in a row and won Alpin Cup overall. I won champion of Slovakia 4th time. This week was very hard for us. To organize a event and compete is the worst combination! But we handled this and I am very happy that everything went well. I hope people like it and will come again!

Thanks a lot to our sponsors of the event:

Adidas - great prices   

Redbull - energy drinks
Paddler - organization
Vajda - eqipment


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