NSR 2013!
Well that was an experience, my first NSR!!
Friday night, with Heather in the van with me, we trundled down the road from the container at uni...and firstly we managed to get a bit lost! BUT it was totally worth it because we were on the way to Chaz's house for dinner, YUCC have this tradition that Chaz's parents did dinner for us all before NSR....dear god, it was epic, we showed up late and everything but we got given this lasagne and cake for pudding, it was gorgeous and a great way to start the weekend.
Then off to the campsite to let the carnage begin...and mine began with meeting Dave, Mark, Matt and Rush at the registration tent so we could all pitch up together. Then mandatory beers :) of which we had many...the party tent was heaving and we all had a few drinks and i was pretty battered! And it turns out...that at NSR....there is a LOT of nakedness. I was without a t-shirt within about an hour for the rest of the night! And so was Dave and everyone else...sweatyyy mmmmmm.
Saturday competition time, I was pretty nervous actually, never been to HPP before, and wanted to compete...so...start with a 360 - a roll or a turn etc, then just play as much as you can on the features on the way down, along with hitting this ball in the eddy which hangs from the slalom line. It was a disaster! I tried to get stuck in the inlet wave, managed it, and then got thrown over and swam out of my boat. Dear god. Then the eddy with the ball, and i decided to lick it. Yes LICK it, the ball at NSR, i thought sod it, im going to get ill anyway! Then, the waves on the corner, i got nailed, side surfing it like a bitch, then it chucked me in for a roll, then more surfing, then i got tired, then i swam again. I was live baited out twice, got back in and carried on both times but how embarrassing! And it was Chaz who bailed me out too!!! Anyways, i got off the water, Dave fed me bacon, nobody saw me thankfully on my run :) I got back on for a wee play but I was pretty hanging still and that was it. Funny thing was, I made the womens expert category!! WTF?!
Turns out that was the sum total of the boating i did over the weekend, because that night, this happened....
...and predictably, i didnt make it to my heats, which were like 9.15am...REALLY?! As if im going to bed early at NSR?! Nah. Not a chance. I woke up at 830am, on time to make it, Dave rolled over sweating alcohol, telling me to go off and get it done but you can bugger off if you think im coming with you....thanks a heap! I wasnt feeling it, then i met this guy called Alan, who convinced me that the secret to life was, and i quote, 'to stop giving so much of a shit' - whilst walking around still awake from the night before, in an sleeping bag upside down, pretty naked too by the looks of it. I got his number and I said id try and make it to Hurley sometime :)
Anyway, we spent the day watching the playboating events, the mens intermediate was absolute class, the expert categories were sickening and the fresher runs were hilarious. As was the old school event, which was Saturday but still, old boats, old kit. Awesome.
There was so much swimming, and it was encouraged!! An amazing atmosphere :) Utter carnage, lots of beer, lots of paddling...awesome.
Also just remembered, I may have written in a WWPF post from last year that some guy from Aston uni wrote his number on my arm and Dave found it on me later when we went to bed lol...well, i bumped into him this weekend too...not sure if he remembered why he recognised me! lol! Anyways ...roll on next year! I heart NSR :)
Friday night, with Heather in the van with me, we trundled down the road from the container at uni...and firstly we managed to get a bit lost! BUT it was totally worth it because we were on the way to Chaz's house for dinner, YUCC have this tradition that Chaz's parents did dinner for us all before NSR....dear god, it was epic, we showed up late and everything but we got given this lasagne and cake for pudding, it was gorgeous and a great way to start the weekend.
Then off to the campsite to let the carnage begin...and mine began with meeting Dave, Mark, Matt and Rush at the registration tent so we could all pitch up together. Then mandatory beers :) of which we had many...the party tent was heaving and we all had a few drinks and i was pretty battered! And it turns out...that at NSR....there is a LOT of nakedness. I was without a t-shirt within about an hour for the rest of the night! And so was Dave and everyone else...sweatyyy mmmmmm.
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| The course from the bottom |
Turns out that was the sum total of the boating i did over the weekend, because that night, this happened....
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| Dave and Glen |
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| Running about the campsite at 3am |
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| Matt, conquering the bollards |
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| Party tent, raving! |
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| Our well respected kayaking experts.....! |
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| Speciallllll |
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| Glen |
...and predictably, i didnt make it to my heats, which were like 9.15am...REALLY?! As if im going to bed early at NSR?! Nah. Not a chance. I woke up at 830am, on time to make it, Dave rolled over sweating alcohol, telling me to go off and get it done but you can bugger off if you think im coming with you....thanks a heap! I wasnt feeling it, then i met this guy called Alan, who convinced me that the secret to life was, and i quote, 'to stop giving so much of a shit' - whilst walking around still awake from the night before, in an sleeping bag upside down, pretty naked too by the looks of it. I got his number and I said id try and make it to Hurley sometime :)
Anyway, we spent the day watching the playboating events, the mens intermediate was absolute class, the expert categories were sickening and the fresher runs were hilarious. As was the old school event, which was Saturday but still, old boats, old kit. Awesome.
There was so much swimming, and it was encouraged!! An amazing atmosphere :) Utter carnage, lots of beer, lots of paddling...awesome.
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| Presentations |
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| Richard Green styling it |
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| Rush |
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