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    Day one, Thursday:     Check in, have team pictures taken and attend briefings.
    Day two, Friday:
    - Mountain Run - 8K Run Course (click for pdf view)!
    - Whitewater Raft Race - One team, one raft and one guide. It will starts further upstream and take away three miles of flat water.
    Day three, Saturday:
    - Mountain Bike Race - Race Course (click for pdf view)!
    - Mountain Hike Race - Race Course (click for pdf view)!
    - Duckie Race - Go straight down the river through Class I - III rapids. Duckies are a combination of raft, canoe and a kayak paddled with double edge paddles.

    Duckies Training Tips
    The duckies for this event are two-person. It generally works best to put the heaviest person in the back and the lightest person in the front. You can sit with your legs crossed (as long as you don't have big legs) with legs forward slightly bent or on your knees. It may be good to change positions if you have bad or stiff knees.
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Maneuvering: The person in the back does all the steering and the person in the front paddles consistently. You should start out paddling with short, quick strokes and then build up to long, strong strokes. Ideally you will want to paddle opposite of one another (while one person takes a stroke on the right side, the other person takes a stroke on the left side). Keep in mind that it is more productive to take an additional forward stroke to adjust direction rather than a back stroke. Back strokes will slow you down.
Swimming/ Falling out/ Overturning: Grab a hold of the duckie right away! Don't let go of your paddle! To climb back in, either climb in on opposite sides from one another or hold the duckie for each other as you climb in one at a time. Stay with your other duckie team members to be there to help them if they swim, lose a paddle or overturn.
- The middle of the river should always have the fastest current.
- If two duckies run into each other in a rapid, one of them is likely to
  overturn.
- You should always go straight into waves. If you hit a wave sideways,   it could flip the duckie. Lean into the wave if hitting it sideways.
- There will be rocks in your way! To get off of a rock:
  1st - Try rocking back and forth,
  2nd - Try moving to one end or the other of the duckie.
  3rd - One person at a time get out and push the duckie around (never   letting go of it!).

These are the basics!! Good luck!!

  
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