Tumalo Creek Blog

Hello Bend SUP racers!

Congrats to all of you dedicated Paddleboarders who have been coming every week to our Stand Up Paddleboarding race series at Tumalo Creek Kayak & Canoe here in Bend. You guys are looking great out there, and there are only two races to go until the finalists are declared and given the chance to compete at nationals in Lake Tahoe! It has been a real treat to host the series, and a special thanks goes out to our in-house paddleboarding expert, Hank Hill who is now teaching beginning SUP classes every Sunday from 10 – 12 and 12 – 2.

We’d love to have you all celebrate your last race with us at our monthly Pickin’ & Paddlin’ event on August 25 featuring Bend’s favorite slamgrassers the Moon Mountain Ramblers. The series raises money for the Bend Paddle Trail Alliance, an organization that is currently working on plans to turn the Colorado Bridge into a whitewater play park, including a surf wave that the SUP community will enjoy for years to come. Come join us on the back lawn after your final race!

I know the results are displayed a little bit jumbled, but you’d like a breakdown of your specific results, please email me at laurel(at)tumalocreek.com . Thanks!

Naish Race Series
Name	Time
	7-Jul	14-Jul	21-Jul	28-Jul	4-Aug
Jayson Bowerman	22:58				26:36:00
Gerry Lopez	24:36:00			28:35:00
Randall Barna	25:02:00	26:30:00	27:05:00	29:34:00	24:43:00
John Frachella	26:18:00	25:57:00
Dennis Oliphant	26:23:00	25:24:00	26:44:00		24:48:00
Pam Stevenson	26:54:00		32:18:00	31:54:00
Jimmy Clark	26:54:00	27:40:00	30:11:00		26:35:00
Scott Youndt	27:00:00	26:37:00
Jen Kjellesrik	27:20:00	26:37:00	28:34:00	30:24:00	26:59:00
Roger Anderson	27:34:00
Travis Busaek	28:49:00	29:01:00	30:42:00	32:58:00	26:44:00
Judy Shasek	29:11:00			34:10:00
Steve Landry	29:17:00	33:44:00	31:40:00
Erik Hammer	29:21:00	27:46:00
Lisa Jakubowski	30:06:00
Mier McCombs	30:11:00
Jim Mahoney	30:15:00	27:51:00	31:29:00	31:17:00
Alex Zarganes	30:36:00	30:39:00	31:17:00	32:42:00	27:47:00
Suzie Miller	31:34:00	31:39:00
Chris Smith	32:15:00		32:14:00
Cristina Acosta	32:41:00		37:14:00
Haakon Kjellesrik	33:38:00		34:29:00
David Stewart	33:38:00
Rene Hajjar	35:48:00
Carrie Raymond	36:58:00
Melinda Collins	39:24:00
	7-Jul	14-Jul	21-Jul	28-Jul	4-Aug	11-Aug	18-Aug	25-Aug
NAME	TIME	TIME	TIME	TIME	TIME	TIME	TIME	TIME
Darryl Nakahira		28:40:00		32:43:00
Scott Agnew		30:20:00	29:20:00
Clay Halverson		32:20:00	32:28:00		27:40:00
Tom Smith		24:42:00
Jason Curran		dnf
David Sullivan		dnf
Gary Kingler		30:11:00
Dawn Stewart		34:02:00	37:39:00
Jenna Timm			38:12:00
Ezabella Barna			32:34:00	32:17:00
David Stewart			30:58:00
Kyle Hayashi			35:14:00
Mike Shabert			30:58:00
Tom Burke			29:40:00	31:03:00	26:44:00
Paul Willerson				33:38:00
Tom Dean				32:10:00	27:35:00
Wade Miller				34:29:00
Gina Miller				41:38:00
Al Paterson				37:10:00
Jim Buccarelli				33:32:00

Great first night of our Naish Stand-Up Paddleboard race series at Tumalo Creek Kayak & Canoe! Congrats to the official winners Gerry Lopez, John Fochella and Jen Kjellesvik (who also runs Women’s SUP Monday night’s here at Tumalo Creek.)

Thanks to everyone who came out.  Spread the word about the series, bring your buds, and even if you don’t have your own board, we’ll rent them half-price here at the shop ($20) for racers on Wednesday nights.

If you would like to race with your own board, remember that the maximum length to qualify in the point system is 12.6 ft.

Check out more info about the race on the events calendar of our website.

Below are the race results for the first night, July 7, 2010. The point system is explained in detail on our events page.

Jayson Bowerman paddles up to the start line underneath the Naish flag. Jayson won the race by almost a minute and a half, but does not qualify in the official results because his custom-made board is 18 ft.

Surfing legend, Gerry Lopez comes in for a graceful finish in first place.

Mass start.

Jen Kjellesvik crosses the finish line and placed third overall and first woman.