If it's hour five of a 50-hour race and you're already, you know, I don't think I can do this for another hour, the next time that you feel that is going to be much work.

So it is kind of managing yourself, making sure you get ahead of issues and never too far down in the hole.

This episode is Luke Zolnarowski, the Texas Water Safari Race 260 miles by canoe.

You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast.

We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the

inspiration and motivation you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're

already there. Now here's your host, Kurt Lindville. Hello friends and welcome to the Adventure Sports

podcast again. Today is about canoe racing and what some claim to be the world's most difficult canoe race.

We have Luke Zolnarowski with us today, and I probably clobbered that last name, but that was my best

attempt. And Luke won the solo version of this race, which is called the Texas Water Safari.

He won that last year, but it wasn't his first rodeo. He had been

down there several times, and so today is all about canoeing, canoe racing, and trying to

train for canoeing in a quasi-dry state. Luke, welcome to the program. Thank you, Kurt. So how are you

today, sir? Good, doing well. I think I'm having a little bit of, this comes every year, a little bit of post-Safari blues, meaning the race is over, a lot of the racing for this season's done, and you kind of don't always know what to do with yourself. Well, I saw that last year you took first place in the solo category, and I was looking

for the results for this year. Maybe I overlooked them. So fill us in. How to go? Yeah, they're not

posted yet. So unless you were following the day of the race and around there, or it's not

officially posted on the website yet, and that may have to do, I think it's a little later than other years,

with the race being called a bit earlier.

So we didn't actually get to do the full extent of the race.

The race is about 260, 65 miles.

And this year, due to just a lot of hazardous flooding at the end of the course, we only made it to mile 2.30, where they kind of stopped the race. But I think it's happened maybe once before in history, and that was maybe in the 60s. So it's definitely not a common occurrence,

and I think they're still kind of sorting through exactly how to properly give people the right accomplishments

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