Hautsa kentzen / Dusting

Aupa!

Badira hilabete dezente egin nuen azken sarreratik. Bai utzikeriagatik baita sasoi honetarako nituen aurreikuspen piraguistikoak bete ez izanak sortutako etsipenagatik ez det gogorik pilatu ezer idazteko. Toki hau piraguakeriak kontatzeko sortu nuenez, sarrera hau uda bitartean zer aritu naizen labur-labur azaltzeko erabiliko det, eta bide batez, blogari hautsa kentzeko ere bai.

Hi!

It’s been few months since the last entry. Due to laziness and because the deception because I don't acomplished the spectatives for this year I didn’t find a reason to write. I started this place to tell my kayaking things so I’ll use this entry to explain shortly what I’ve doing until summer, and do the dust to the blog.

Urtarril eta otsail euritsuei esker, aurten Leitzaranenera hurbiltzeko aukera dezente egon da, ur emari handiarekin maiz. Erreka hartara joateak beti gogorazten dit zein zorioneko garen halako harribitxi bat etxetik gertu edukitzeagatik. Oso gustuko det bere uretan arin sentitzea, linea ona mantentzeko kontzentratua, esfortzu gutxiaz eroso mugituz.

Quite nice rain season allowed us to enjoy the local runs, specially Leitzaran, which sometimes has been with really good flows. Every lap on this river reminds me how lucky we are because of living so close to this beauty, unfortunately it only works with hard rain. I really enjoy going fast down there, feeling agyle, focused in the lines, dancing with the water…

Leitzaran XL

Udaberriarekin batera ailegatu ziren lehendabiziko txapelketak. Pare bat egin nituen Frantzian, bata pirinioetan eta bestea alpeetan. Uretan gustura ibili ezinik aritu nintzen, konfidantza gabe eta lasterketetan hortzak estutzeko zailtasunekin. Dena den beti ikasten da zerbait. Alpeetarako bidaian metro batzuk igo ditut egin dudan ur jauzi altuenearen marka, 20m-ra arte.

With the springtime first races came. I did Pyrenees Buddies Race and OutdoorMix in Alps. I couldn’t enjoy very much because I was paddling without confidence and with problems to give all my best. In the other hand I did  the talest waterfall I did ever in Alps, a 20m clean drop.

Byassee drop.

Hortik aurrera pirineo inguruetan ibili naiz zertxobait, tartean nire River Guru Extrem Race lasterketa ospatu zelarik. Aurreko lasterketetan baina gusturago ibili nintzen honetan, fisikoki negargarri sentitu arren. Sailkapen probetan ez nintzen guztiz gustura sentitu, egin nahi nuen bidea ez nuen memorizatua eta horrek oso deseroso sentiarazten nau. Finalerako, zalantzak nituen tokian behatu nituen eta jeitsiera nahiko ona burutu nuen chikane ur lasterra arte, non abiadura gabe gelditu ondoren irauli ere egin nintzen, hura amorrua! 
Helmugan, lehiakide guztiek hutsen bat egin zutela zioten, podiumerako lehia oso irekia utziz. Sailkapenetan hirugarren gelditu nintzela esan zutenean pozarren igo astindu nuen txanpaina, nire lehenengo podiuma izateaz gain ez nuelako espero.

After that I’ve been paddling in the pyrenees, and competed in River Guru Extrem Race. Best paddlers around here meet every year there. I felt more confortable than in the previous races, although I felt like shit fisically. In completed the cualifications quite disapointed with myself because I raced without knowing good the lines, that makes me feel lost in the river. I checked the rapids for the finals and I did it quite good run until the last rapid, the chikane, where I lost all the speed and after that I rolled, such a rage! All the racers said that they made few mistakes so the fight for the podium was opened. When the speaker said that I get third I get happy because of my first podium.

Eta honelaxe iritsi zen uda eta aurtengo lehengo bidaia, Norvegiara, baina hori beste batean kontatuko det, espero horri buruz idazteko beste sei hilabete behar ez izatea!

And after all this months I did the first trip of the year, with Norway as destination. I’ll write about it another time, I hope I’ll need less than another six months!