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-**Should have known…** .When we flew into** Kahului, Maui** at almost the exact time that NOAA was expecting the Hurricane, now downsized, "Tropical Storm Olivia" to make landfall. When the pilot announced it might be a little bumpy on the landing and a few minutes later the plane dropped what seemed like "an elevator missing a couple of floors suddenly" but in reality only about one second, but all the passengers yelled like they were on the brink of going down a roller coaster rail, is probably when I started asking myself if my life insurance policy was payed up and if my daughters knew where my Will was kept and what on earth did I sign up for??? After we taxied in, half of my crew that I was paddling with, which were on the same plane, Coach Gordan Martinez, Seat Two in the canoe, Ken Kroeger, Seat Three (part of the Engine Room with me as we were called, in seat Four) gave me grief for thinking it was bumpy and that **"Moana" (Vast Ocean)** had **other plans for us, **again, I started thinking about my Will. Our stroke Joel Strimling (Seat One) and Walt Wolf (Seat Five and backup steersman) and our second coach and boat captain, Bo Chun Fook was our Seat Six and Steersman, all were flying in later, rounded out our crew of paddlers for** Kikaha NorthWest.**
+**Should have known…** .When we flew into** Kahului, Maui** at almost the exact time that NOAA was expecting the Hurricane, now downsized, "Tropical Storm Olivia" to make landfall. When the pilot announced it might be a little bumpy on the landing and a few minutes later the plane dropped what seemed like "an elevator missing a couple of floors suddenly" but in reality only about one second, but all the passengers yelled like they were on the brink of going down a roller coaster rail, is probably when I started asking myself if my life insurance policy was paid up and if my daughters knew where my Will was kept and what on earth did I sign up for??? After we taxied in, half of my crew that I was paddling with, which were on the same plane, Coach Gordan Martinez, Seat Two in the canoe, Ken Kroeger, Seat Three (part of the Engine Room with me as we were called, in seat Four) gave me grief for thinking it was bumpy and that **"Moana" (Vast Ocean)** had **other plans for us, **again, I started thinking about my Will. Our stroke Joel Strimling (Seat One) and Walt Wolf (Seat Five and backup steersman) and our second coach and boat captain, Bo Chun Fook was our Seat Six and Steersman, all were flying in later, rounded out our crew of paddlers for** Kikaha NorthWest.**
 We had signed up for the race as an **Iron Team**, thus no water change-outs during the "26 miles or so" from Maui to the little protection of a harbor and the beach of Kaunakakai on Moloka'i (The Friendly Isle). Before all this happened though, our crew had reserved five Oc 1's and an one Oc 2 to do a down winder on Maui called the **Maliko Run. **Basically a Steroid version of Drano to White Salmon at the The Gorge or really a double Steroid version of Wildcat Cove to the Harbor. This was only a day after Miss Olivia had paid a visit to Maui, and our down wind host, none other then one of the worlds best paddlers, Kai Bartlett, calmly asked whom among us had **Ocean Experience **then stated that it might be a **little "lively"** out there!! Should have known….I had been nursing a sore shoulder that forced me out of the last long training paddle with my crew but it seemed to get dialed in right before I left with last second Vodoo Stuff from expert Physio Therapist ,Carolyn Watson. Still trying to protect my shoulder for the Saturday Sleigh Ride I got to ride shotgun with Kai in the OC 2 thinking "no sweat"..**.wrong..**.throttle on full, don't stop, relax, breath, full throttle, put your paddle in all the way first, go, go, go ,go, relax , breath, turning right, turning left, duck (flying fish doing Kamikaze Runs at us or just trying to get out of the way) as we throttled down theses large rollers and waves at 15 to 20 mph. I was paddling with one of the masters **if not the master** of outrigger surfing and racing. Once I stopped spitting out salt water that had been injected into me most of the run and I pulled my board shorts back down to where they had started at the beginning of the run….I thought…I need a lot and a lot and a lot (did I mention, a lot) more practice…Kai is amazing. I don't care what it costs but if you get a chance to paddle with Kai….Just Do It (thank you Nike).

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