MR340 by Katie Pfefferkorn
Any pictures of her canoe? Assuming it is a monohull and no rudder, she had to paddlesteer the entire 340 miles?
#1 Fri, 05/29/2009 - 7:24am
Supposedly, she was one of 9 women who did it solo last year. One of the articles mentioned that shes completed the race in a plastic kayak but last year she used a carbon fiber canoe which dropped her time tremendously.
They are definitely not like the OC-1s with rudder system.
Below is a picture of that plastic kayak from which she switches off between a kayak double blade and a canoe paddle as seen below:
Picture from the first MR340 race she entered:
#2 Fri, 05/29/2009 - 10:45am
Mahalo for the pictures. She looks like someone who did a lot of shopping at your friendly local REI store? Is that a half gallon milk type container sunk in the back of her being used for hydration? Pretty good idea and economical too. I belive most of those river races all go with the current. Just too strenuous to go up stream.
#4 Fri, 05/29/2009 - 4:35pm
I actually found this article in Fitness Paddling website:
http://race.fit2paddle.com/
The MR340 is a 340 mile endurance paddling race along the Missouri River.
The articles about Katie Pfefferkorn who enters this 340 mile endurance event. It seems like a pretty grueling endurance race. She works as a Chemical Engineer during the work week and competes in paddling, triathlons, local 5K races, and marathons.
Starting at the age of 21, Katie Pfefferkorn completed the course in a little over 98 hours.
In 2008, she finished in just 50 hours, paddling a 21-foot, carbon fiber racing canoe and sleeping only one-and-a-half hours.
Her times in the MR340 for the last three years...
2006 Woman’s solo, 98:36
2007 Woman’s solo, 58:57
2008 Woman’s solo, 50:00
2009 Scheduled for Aug 4 - 7
In 2007, Kate’s sister Jodi, a filmmaker, made the documentary Down River & Up Hill about the Missouri River 340
Awesome!
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