KING OF THE GREEN 2006!

Monday, October 23, 2006

Katie Hilleke Fundraiser

Hey everyone, my friend Ken Hoeve "Hobie" from dagger has just sent me an email telling me about a program he and dagger have set up to help raise money for Katie Hilleke. He and Dagger are auctioning off a custom kayak with the starting bid being at 500 dollars, if anyone out there needs a new boat please bid on this item, it is for a great cause and you get a totally custom boat. (graphics that is) this is the website where you can find out all the information you need
http://www.teamdagger.com/ssp/news?news_id=14

and also don't forget that anyone racing the green, entry fee is free but donations of more than 25 dollars gets you a free t-shirt and all the money goes to katie! so come on guys go empty your change buckets and help a friend in need.
Thanks everyone

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

First Saturday of November, LEVEL BE DAMNED!!!!

So, as you all should know the Green is raced every year on the first Saturday in november. LEVEL BE DAMNED. Does anyone remember November 6th,2004? I do. This was the day all but 8 green racers said not me, water is too high! Some said they'd wait a year and some tried to reschedule a race for the first saturday of December. It fell through. Why? because no matter waht the official green race day always has been and always will be on the FIRST SATURDAY OF NOVEMBER. if you're not experienced enough or just plain chicken to race that day then step aside. On November 6th 2004 the level of the green was upwards of 250% and only 8 stepped up. results, links to photos and videos are posted below

1. Tommy Hilleke
2. Pat Keller
3. Chris young
4. Chris Gragtmans
5. Jason Hale
6. Scot Harcke
6. Austin Rathmann (tied with Scott Harcke)
8. Jon Grace

Video at
http://www.lvmvideo.com/quicktime/greenrace1.mov
http://www.lvmvideo.com/quicktime/greenrace2.mov

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

PHOTOS!!!!

Here is a photographic tribute to the warriors who man up and race this beast each year. A big thanks to dallas from Lithiumkayaking.com for supplying the pics everyone go check out his site!
http://www.lithiumkayaking.com

LADIES AND GENTLEMAN TOMMY HILLEKE!


Robin Betts Warrior Princess


Wild Man Jason Hale


Green River Faithful supporting the racers! Gotta love the crowd!


Chris Gragtmans folks (can he beat tommy?)


Head to Head action on the GREEN!


Jedi Master Chris young OOPS! he's backwards!

Monday, September 18, 2006

SHIT TALKING QUOTES

Heres a few to get everyone started...more to come!

Hey Austin,
             lets hope you put your racin where your ass beatin mouth is haha must be the tequila talking, all in good fun bro! This is my first green race and plan on gettin my ass spanked. I started trainin at the begining of the summer and logged 100+ runs on the green, 2 horsepastures, and 1 linville. Hopefully there will be plenty of shit talkin and good lines, see ya there!!
 Jacob Black

"I plan to beat Saunders Southecorvo's time by at
least half... but hopefully more. What am I doing to
train for this great feat? Absolutely nothing, I feel
that with the overwhelming sense of enlightenment I
feel when on the green, I will more then likely
achieve my mission, and defeat my nemesis with great
margin. Disclaimer: If by some miracle my
enlightenment fails, and I crash miserably at Go Left,
then please delete this comment so that Saunders has
no hard evidence to gloat over in years to come. Thank
you"
-Nathan Silsbee


"I'm hot on the trail of a sub 5 minute run in an 8'6'' boat and this  
will be the year!   Chasing the clock more than the long boats, but  
one spin and they'll be eating my short-boat dust."

-Clay Romulous Wright (aka yoda)


hey, most of you southeast guys probably dont know me - i'm from great falls/DC and i do the races up here - won ohiopyle and i had the fastest time at the great falls race...before crashing and burning as i'm famous for doing in extreme races...I'm sure tommy remembers my shameful boating train wrecks after having top 10 times out at the teva games.. anyways i dislocated my shoulder and i'm gonna need surgury, so I wont have the pleasure of challenging you this year, you wont have even the smallest chance of seeing another disintegrated finals run, but you'll be spared defeat from me, but i will warn you that Beakes is planning on coming down, so you better bring your a-game. See you in colorado next year, and you can count on me gunning for the glass next year. good luck, race safe.
Geoff Calhoun


Here is my list of shit talking. I'm going to get straight to it-

Nathan Silsbee will get whiplash when I pass him in the head to head

Eric "Tulip" Chance will shit a ham when he sees that my time is a third of
his.

I really look up to Chris Gragtmans. I respect him because he will take
losing to me like a real man and not cry in public.

Rob Thompkins is a girly man.

I have nothing to say to Allen Speering other than Jackson and bloody nose.
Maybe the wrestling will go better for you this year...

I will refrain from saying anything about Robin, because she will probably
kick the shit out of me both on and off the river.

That's all I have for now. If anyone else wants some shit talking please
send all your requests to dfinney@vt.edu. And in the unlikely event that I
get beat down and lose terribly, I will continue to shit talk as if I won
the whole thing. See you all in a month and a half!!!!!!

David Finney

GET FIRED UP!!!!!!

So hey everyone this is the first post of what I hope to be daily updates of the Green River Race 2006 which is being held at the Green River Narrows on November 4th, 2006. I hope everyone is either already training or getting ready to start! If you're not a racer then put the date on your calendar and come cheer everyone on. Of course the big question this year is seeing as Tommy Tsunami Hilleke now lives in Colorado and Pat Keller will certainly be healthy this year after suffering a devastating injury just weeks before race day last year, can Tommy hold on to his crown? my vote is YES! I mean of course Pat is a machine in training and everything but Tommy's won what the last six green races I think? And showed no signs of letting up last year laying down the FASTEST time in Green Race History even faster than the prior year when we raced at 200%!!!!! Also lets not forget about the fact that several people have the ability to upset Tommy and Pat and take the crown for themselves. I hope I don't offend anyone by leaving them out but here is a quick list of my favorites to upset Tommy and Pat and no they are not in order all of these guys could do it.
Jon Grace
Tobi Won Kinobi Macdermott
Chris Gragtmans
Jason Hale
SCOTT I'm a BAD MOTHER FUCKER HARCKE!!!!!!
Brad Kee
Adam Herzog
and many many more!!!!!!
I unfortunately am stuck in Jackson Wyoming and can't get on the green to dial in my lines so I personally am running 40 minutes a day and paddling a Wavehopper down Snake River canyon every day trying to stay in shap so I can show up and hopefully show Clay Wright who owns the short boat class!
I would like to encourage anyone and everyone to email me with what you're doing to get ready for Green Race, Some shit talking quotes and anything else that might be worthy of posting on this page like history of the race, Green Race Photos from years past and especially more shit talking! lets get it started boys!
my email addy is
Austin@dv-s.com
Thanks guyys and good luck
Austin Rathmann