A River Run’s Through It



A River Run’s Through It

There is never a shortage of workouts and backblasts throughout the Union County Area.  Today, I had the joy of hanging out with some of the PAX and families while we floated down the Catawba River.  Now, you may think that the behaviors and personalities would change outside of a workout at 5:30 in the morning.  However, there is never a shortage of jokes  or fun strewn throughout an F2 even with my fellow F3 Brethren.

The Thang

Show up to the Catawba River near the Pump House

  • Realize there are a ton of people who choose to rent rafts in the area to float down the river.
    • You can purchase tubes ahead of time for $10 or pay $20 to rent a tube for the day
    • The raft companies make a fortune renting the same inner tubes we purchased for the day- Find Academy Sports or Amazon before Arriving
    • To be a bit quicker, go ahead and drop off a couple of cars at River Park prior to driving to going to the entry point.
  • The PAX spend about 30 minutes inflating inner tubes and dragging our coolers and gear down to the river.
    • It is hard to get 12 tubes launched in a single chain into the river
    • Rubbermaid learned his yellow cooler doesn’t really float
    • Ice melts really quickly when your cooler fills with water
    • We were finally launched and floating down the river
  • Every floating journey comes with its own challenges
    • Floating down the river as a big circle sounds really easy until:
      • You realize we were all really bad a tying knots
      • If you catch a connecting rope or tube on a rock, many go in the water
      • Many of us went into the water:  Loss of beer, snack and the speaker really didn’t like river water
      • And, the yellow cooler is more like a weight full of water than a cooler after its second trip into the river
      • It is much easier to go through the rocks when you are floating as a single line
    • The kids never actually were really board
      • Lots of kids jumping into the water and throwing balls between the rafts
      • Snacks make the river a lot of fun
      • Damascus likes to flip people out of their tubes, even if they are sitting on a cooler
    • How do you stop at a given point in the river
      • Damascus makes a great anchor to pull the tubes into the rocky wading area
      • He set a record for  Man Touch via the pulling of the tubes into the exit ramp
      • We had a siting of Baby Bell and Lamar, both of which have sworn off any workouts before noon
  • The group had a great time hanging out and floating down the river.  There were ample jokes made about ziplocks Horse hear becoming deflated and how the could have been broken in addition to the recommendations of how to “Blow It” up.  We rapped up the day at Steak and Shake prepping for the weigh in tomorrow.

 

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