PKRA course race world cup Greece
14.09.09
A few years have passed since the PKRA had been guest on beautiful Pounda Beach/Paros Island, but finally this year the tour returned to Greece for their 5th course race world cup of the season.
Because of the last minute announcement of the event only about 2/3rd of the riders were able to make it out to Greece. Still, the best of the best had showed up to battle it out race after race between the islands of Paros and Antiparos. With 4 races a day and 5 possible days of racing an interesting event was expected. However, Bruno Sroka proved that he really is the best rider this year, winning every single race.
On the female side Steph Bridge had broken her rib and could not compete, that meant for me my strongest opponent was out and even though we had some awesome greek girls compete I was able to win all except of one race.
While the winners were pretty undisputed, it seemed as if there was a little dispute going on between Paros and the weather gods. While the first 2 days brought perfect sunshine and 15-20 knots, the 3rd day came with some crazy rain. Usually there is NO RAIN whatsoever in Greece at this time of the year and soeverybody was completely unprepared.. The restaurant and kite center proofed very water-un-proof a nd beach and roads did not seem to soak up any of the water falling from the sky. While everything was muddy and messy the restaurants in Pounda all closed down and it took a day to get everything to work normal again.
The happier everybody was to see the sun again on the last 2 days of the event and next to racing the windy time was also used to run the Greek Championships. The top 3 guys and girls were really riding on a pretty high level and it was fun to watch them between our races!
With 11 races and the Greek Championships completed everyone could be pretty satisfied with the event and after the price giving the riders that had traveled to Paros from all over the world took the next ferry back to Athens and towards home.
Greece ones again proofed itself to be a beautiful and worthy world cup spot and we will probably come back next year!
