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Mike Herbert

Age: 51

City/Land: Rogers, Ark.

Boat: A Stellar 21 pes Surfski single kayak made of carbon fiber composite

Family: Married to Christel with 2 daughters.

Race: two Dam Days Unlimited Men's Solo

Business: Mechanical Coordinator at the Walton Art Center

Race Wins: Mike was a member of the Usa Olympics Flat Water Kayak Team winning the 1988, 1992, 1996 Olympics. He won the 1991 Pan American games in Republic of cuba and he has 37 national flat water championship wins over 15 years of contest. He won outset place in the men'due south solo ii Dam Days Marathon in 2010 and 2011 and the best overall time in 2010. He won first identify in the men'due south solo in two 2012 US National Marathon Nationals.

Likes to kayak: Thousand Cayman Islands

Race Strategy: "It depends on who is out there. If in that location is a fast double team, that will change my strategy. If my main opponents are a double team, I will endeavor to stick with the fastest gunkhole and play the race out and meet how it goes, and run across what their speed is and allow the mileage unfold and the race will tell itself. If I am head-to-head with someone, I will need to be more than in control of the race," Herbert said.

Herbert's dad introduced him to kayaking at the age of xv. He went on to win 37 national championships paddling all over the earth with some of the highlights beingness: Republic of hungary, Espana, Poland, Italia and Germany. Herbert was a sprinter until 2010 when he started competing in the 2 Dam Days Marathon. Herbert said of ii Dam Days: "It's a pretty nice payout, one of the biggest I've raced in." He is excited that he will be able to run into a lot of the lake over again, and he is anxious to see who shows up on the line. He thinks the dazzler of kayaking is seeing the lake upwards close while moving nether his own ability.

Mat Dressaler

Historic period: 32

City/State: Grain Valley, Mo.

Family: Married to Aimee with three children

 Gunkhole: 25 Feet Huki S2X

Business organization: Technology Engineer at Greenwave Technology

Race: Tandem Unlimited with partner Uncle A Dog, team name Mid West Commotion

Race Wins: (near recent), First place and current tape holder in the 2012 MR340 iii human team sectionalization, with a second overall fourth dimension of 340 miles in 40:46 minutes, starting time identify men's solo, first place overall and current record holder in the 2012 Missouri River Shootout race, l miles in 5:13:49, First identify men's solo and current record holder in the 2012 Ramp to Ramp, twenty miles in two:37, Starting time place, offset place overall and current tape holder in the 2012 Missouri Freedom iii-man team sectionalization, 63 miles in 6:26, second place in the 2011 Twisted 27, second place in the men's solo, (second to Mike Herbert), in the 2011 Gritty Fifty.

Race Strategy: "Go a adept rhythm going and run across how it goes. We accept not done this race earlier and nosotros don't know if nosotros should stay in the main channel, or cut corners, or what. We will sentry Mike Herbert (Olympic medalist and 2010 and 2011 2 Dam Days first place men'south solo) and use his line at the start and try to effigy out where he is going. We're one of the underdogs. Those other guys are elite guys, like Tommy Yonley and Herbert, were non supposed to win this race, but we will do the best we can. We're non at the Olympic or national level just we are racers and we certain would like to win the title dorsum for Missouri," Dressaler said.

 Likes to Kayak: Any river in the Midwest

 "In 2010 A friend of mine signed up for the MR340, that's 340 miles not-stop from K.C. to St. Louis, and I idea it sounded ridiculous: y'all're on the river all dark long, directly through. I signed up for the crazy take chances. I bought a boat and ii weeks later entered the MR340. At the terminate of the race, at iii a.m., (the 2d morn), the fog got so thick I couldn't see, and I was 19 miles from the terminate line. I hit a stone wing dyke and it sunk my boat costing me a possible podium finish in my showtime race. In one case that happened it got the hooks in me and I've been paddling now for two years. I accept done well in the Midwest races but this volition be a learning curve for sure," Dressaler said.

Marilyn Thieman

Age: 45

City/Sate: Eldon, Mo

Race: 2 Dam Days Women'due south Unlimited Tandem Canoe with partner Traci Martin

Boat: 24 Pes Huki OC2 Outrigger Canoe

Family unit: Unmarried

Business: Manufacturing

Race Wins: First place in the 2012 Perche Creek Gut Buster Women's Solo Kayak, third place in the 2012 GAS (Gasconade) Women's Solo Kayak

Race Strategy: Try to stay good for you and get my residue. I work hard at my job and paddle on the weekend, then I plan to work difficult.

Likes to Kayak: San Marcos in Texas

"I accept been a river-rat my whole life, starting with high school bladder trips and so I merely started wanting to push the limit and see how far I could go in a day. I like to paddle every weekend. Racing on the Lake of the Ozarks is going to be a challenge because of the big boats and the waves. Information technology'due south a niggling scary; sometimes the waves get and so big the fiddling kayak gets swamped and yous can't see it until information technology pops up after the moving ridge activeness settles. I am hoping people will look out for us," Thieman said.

Diane McHenry

Age: 56

Race: 2 Dam Days Unlimited Tandem with married man Chuck

City/Country: Ironton, Mo.

Boat: Ruahine Gamble Duet Tandem Kayak

Family: Married to Chuck with five children between them

Business: Slumber Lab Technologist

Race Wins: 2006 Missouri 340 Mixed Tandem, Commencement identify and record holder in the 2010 Missouri 340 mixed tandem, 340 miles in just under 42 hours, Missouri 340 women's tandem record, kickoff place and solo record holder at the Gritty Fitty, showtime place in women'southward tandem and women'south record holder in Gritty Commencement place mixed tandem in the 2008 and 2009 Texas Water Safari, get-go place in women's tandem in the 2010 Kawnivore, Golden and downriver champion for 10 years in the Missouri White Water Championships, first place mixed tandem in the 2011 two Dam Days Unlimited Marathon, first place in women'southward solo in the 2012 Missouri Freedom Race, 2nd identify in women's solo in the Gasconade, Mixed tandem winner and record holder in the 2010 Gasconade Mixed Tandem, first place in the 2012 Race to the Dome. Diane raced more than 1,000 miles in 2010, not including training.

Race Strategy: "Nosotros are so beat up from the extreme heat at the 2012 MR340 that we but await at each other and say - all we have to do is survive and give it our best. Donna and Jim Short are the ones we will try to go along in sight," said Chuck and Diane.

Likes to Kayak: The Yukon River Quest

"My husband got me started in 2003, and we were married in 2006," McHenry said.

Chuck McHenry

Age: 61

Race: ii Dam Days Unlimited Tandem with wife Diane

City/Country: Ironton, Mo.

Boat: Ruahine Adventure Duet

Family unit: Married to Diane with five children between them

Business: Dentist

Race Wins: First place in the mixed tandem at the 2006 Missouri 340, first place and record in the 2010 Missouri 340, first place men'due south tandem and tape in the 2010 Gritty Fitty, first identify mixed tandem in the 2009 Texas Water Safari, starting time place in the 2010 Kawlloween, Gold medalist for 25 years in the Missouri White Water Championship in downriver and slalom, fifth place in the men's solo in the 2012 Missouri 340, first place mixed tandem in the 2011 ii Dam Days Unlimited, national champion in the 1989 Senior Downriver. Chuck raced in two world cups, and qualified for four slalom Olympic team trials. He raced over ane,000 miles in 2010, not including training.

Likes to Kayak: "The St. Francis River in Missouri, I love the white water and long scenic pools for training," McHenry said.

Chuck moved next to the St. Francis River 33 years agone. He saw people white-water kayaking and bought a kayak for himself. Since then he has kayaked in the Himalayas, the Andes, the Dominican Republic, United mexican states, Canada and Belize. He feels the ii Dam Days is i of the toughest races there is.

Jacob Simon and Bryan Crawford

Ages: 23 and 24

Urban center/State: Rogersville, Mo. and Springfield, Mo.

Race: 2 Dam Days Anything Goes

Boat: A homemade raft named Amy Lynn

Family: Both men are single

Business organization: Flooring

Race Wins: Beginning place in the Stockton Lake Great American Raft Race

Likes to Kayak: Jamaica

Race Strategy: To piece of work really hard to win the race.

Jacob'south dad Daryl Simon built the gunkhole three years ago for the Stockton Lake Cracking American Raft race. The boat is fabricated of a racing raft and two canvas covered kayak shapes that agree each side of a paddle wheel. At that place is a crank made out of galvanized pipe that extends out then that a man can stand on either side of the crank and crank with his easily or his feet. "It goes pretty fast and it throws a lot of water. We accept never gone three miles and we hope it doesn't throw too much water," Daryl Simon said. Amy Lynn is named after a young lady that married Simon's nephew. "We were supposed to go to their wedding on the race day, and so we named the gunkhole after his new bride," Simon said. The boat was painted orangish and silverish to represent Amy Lynn's hymeneals colors. (The nephew asked what it might mean to their marriage if the boat sank or came in terminal!) The Amy Lynn won starting time place and $200 that year. Daryl Simon and his partner Tony Bodine as well won first place in the 2011 2 Dam Days three-27 Men'southward Unlimited Tandem Result.

Sandy Yonley

Age: 30

Urban center/State: Houston, TX

Family: Married to Tommy with 2 children

Race: 2 Dam Days Unlimited Women'due south Solo

Boat: 19 pound Huki S1A Surfski

Concern: Homemaker

Likes to Kayak: Rivers and the Lake of the Ozarks

Race Wins: Sandy took starting time place in the 2011 2 Dam Days Women'southward Solo, get-go in the mixed tandem at the 2012 Texas Water Safari, starting time place in the Tandem Plastic and first in the 2012 Avon Descent in Perth, Australia.

Race strategy: "To stride myself and not over-practice it on the first day."

Yonley'due south parents operated a river guide business concern on the Rio Grande River in Big Bend, Tx. Her mother beginning took her kayaking when she was a newborn. The first time she competed was at the age of five with her dad in a parent/kid race. Her get-go real race was at the age of fourteen. "I am so accepted to racing, I can't imagine not doing it," Yonley said. It takes several months of training for her to be ready to compete in the 2 Dam Days Marathon.

Thomas "Tommy" Yonley

Historic period: 33

Urban center/Land: Houston, Tx.

Race: 2 Dam Days Unlimited Men's Solo

Boat: 27 pound Huki S1Z Surfski Solo Kayak

Family: Married to Sandy with ii children

Business: Electrical Engineer

Race Wins: Many races, but the most recent are: 2009 Laredo's Rifest solo, 2nd place in the 2012 Avon Descent Tandem, Perth, Australia, 2011 two Dam Days best overall time and first identify in the men's tandem, first place mixed tandem in the 2012 Texas Water Safari

Likes to Kayak: Lake of the Ozarks

Race Strategy: Try to keep upwardly with Olympic medalist Mike Herbert.

"It has been overnice the last couple of years to come to the Lake of the Ozarks and I am looking forward to information technology. This race is this highest paying race for women in the country. I retrieve the large payout volition increase the popularity of the sport. The hard thing about this race is it is pretty long, and the course has potentially some big boats that can make quite a bit of waves. That makes information technology somewhat intimidating especially for women who don't get out and paddle in the big waves. Being in the eye of the country y'all don't have a run a risk to railroad train in the sea and that makes information technology a little more intimidating. The 2 Dam Days race is the number 1 race on our calendar for the yr," Yonley said.

Uncle A Dog

Historic period: 37

City/Land: Greenwood, Mo.

Race: Tandem Kayak with partner Mat Dressaler

Boat: 24 feet S2X Huki

Family: Married to Jennifer with one child

Business: Fourth grade school teacher

Race Wins: Commencement place men'southward solo in the 2012 Freedom Race, fifth place in the 2012 Carnivore, Second place in the 2012 MR340.

Race Strategy: "Go and give it everything we have; nosotros're coming to race and we know the competition has a much improve resumé and feel. We will go out strong and try to stay strong."

Likes to Kayak: Lake Jacomo in Lees Pinnacle, Mo.

"I always wanted to build a raft similar Huck Finn and float it to St. Louis from K.C., but it was too heavy to transport so instead, in 2001 I built a wooden canoe. That led into finding faster boats and the side by side matter I knew, I was racing. I started racing in 2005. I have never raced on the Lake and I think it volition be a fantastic challenge, particularly on twenty-four hour period two with all the big boats and waves. I am looking forrard to that…it's all function of the activity."

Traci Martin

Age: 45

Urban center/Land: Lees Summit

Race: 2 Dam Days Women's Unlimited Tandem Canoe with partner Marilyn Thieman

Boat: 24 Human foot Huki OC2 Outrigger Canoe

Family unit: Single with 2 children

Business: Nurse

Race Wins: Start place in the women'due south solo in the 2011 MR340, and the 2010 and 2011 Gritty Fifty, third identify in women's solo in the 2012 MR340

Race Strategy: "To stay in the boat and keep paddling"

Likes to Kayak: Off the declension of Alaska

"I enjoy beingness out on the water, and I take a severely ill child and paddling is a stress reliever. I paddled a lot past myself. In 2009 someone suggested I try and race, and I did well, and I take been racing ever since. Lake paddling is really difficult and the Lake of the Ozarks is harder because of the large boats and waves. Information technology's going to be a difficult race. I normally race solo so this is my first tandem race."

Jamie Middlesworth

Age: 39

City/Country: Holden, Mo.

Boat: 16 pes plastic canoe

Family: Single

Race: 2 Dam Days Unlimited Men's Tandem with partner Jeremy Knox

Business: Machine Store

Races: Recreational paddling, clemency runs

Likes to canoe: Regal Gorge in Colorado

Race strategy: I am just going to do what my partner tells me, he'southward the expert

Since loftier school, Middlesworth has been paddling rivers in Missouri for fun. "I accept a identify on the 61 mile mark of the Lake of the Ozarks and I idea, let's practise it in a canoe."

Jeremy Knox

Historic period: 38

Metropolis/Country: Holden, Mo.

Boat: 16 foot plastic canoe

Family: Single

Race: 2 Dam Days Tandem Unlimited Men'due south Tandem with partner Jamie Middlesworth

Business: Internet Provider

Races: 2010 Missouri River 340

Likes to canoe: The Colorado River

Race Strategy: "Everyone is driven by big check books and fancy kayaks. Nosotros are driven by pure stupidity," Jeremy said, laughing. "Flat water takes a lot more effort, so nosotros could utilize all the back up nosotros tin get."

"I got started racing when I saw an advertisement for the 2010 Missouri River 340 in 2010. I had never paddled before other than on drunken float trips. My buddy said 'Let'due south go do it,' and we did and he quit on me half style through it." Knox as well races 4 wheelers in the professional person circuit.