River kayak racing is a lot tougher than it might seem. Brad Pennington was 35 miles into a 340-boat race up the Missouri River when he said he thought someone hit him in the head with a brick. It turned out to be a 30-pound, sideways-leaping silver carp that jumped out of the water at him. He managed to keep his boat upright and continue paddling, but he had to withdraw from the race with a broken rudder. Oddly enough, Pennington said that getting face slapped by a carp wasn’t even the worst thing that’s happened to him during a kayak race. “In Texas,” he said. “We’ve been shot at with BB guns during races.”

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