La Ventana SUP Series

As you guys might know, most people who live or visit La Ventana are kiters, windsurfers, mountain bikers, fishermen, and overall active people who love the outdoors. Stand Up Paddleboarding has grown as a sport in the past years and every day you see more and more SUPers enjoying the beautiful bay of La Ventana.

 Group shot of the SUP racers and Jessica, from Playa Central. 

Warren Bruce on the right, thank you for sharing the stoke and encouraging everyone to
participate in this 1st SUP race at Playa Central. Cheers! 

One of our friends from La Paz, Brian Harker, from Harker Boards Co., hosts SUP races in La Paz and invited Warren Bruce and everyone at Playa Central to participate a SUP relay race last October. We had so much fun doing it that we decided it had to be done in La Ventana too. Warren Bruce is an all around athlete who likes to share his passion for sports, and together Playa Central and Warren put on the 1st race of the La Ventana SUP Series 2012-2013.

As you can see some people used race boards and other used fun boards.
All boards and levels of paddlers are bienvenidos! 

A special thanks to the five participants who raced today, here are their names in the order they finished, fouth place tied:
1. Doug Hopkins, from White Salmon, WA.
2. Warren Bruce, from La Ventana, Mexico.
3. Pablo Martinez, from Colima, Colima, Mexico.
4. Norm Beddows, from Calgary, Canada.
4. D. Larkman, from White Salmon, WA.

We had a beach start, and racers headed North to go around Captain Kirk´s buoy and back down to Playa Central, making the race 2.1 Km, or 1.3 miles. 

Una, dos, dos y medio, y TRESSSS!

Tired boys! Good job guys! Hugs, Jessica. 

This was a great start for the series.  We are excited to see how much it grows and hope to see more women in the race too. As more people participate, we will have a fun board and a race board category, and get some cool prizes. Today the only prize we gave to all racers were little SUP cookies made in Playa Central´s wood oven.

SUP cookies for everyone! Made by the best bakery in Baja! AKA, Playa Central :) 

Thanks to all of the racers that came out today for the 1st race and congradulations to Doug Hopkins for his 1st place. Playa Central likes to bring the town together for some healthy fun and we hope this will encourage more people to try out the sport! For SUP lessons or rentals please e-mail jessica@playacentralkiteboarding.com