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lindanette challenges: Dipole challenge 230 km

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We are Linda and Anette (lindanette)! Kayaking enthusiasts, who like to paddle long distances on the rivers and we like competitive challenges.  About three weeks ago we managed to register ourselves to Yukon River Quest 2020 (World's longest paddling marathon, 715 km in Canada). It was a challenge itself to manage the registration, as some technical problems appeared. Around 4 AM I (Linda) took a call to Canada and one really friendly and helpful guy helped us. In the end we appeared on 90th place in the starting list (to keep in mind that only 125 places were available). This picture you see was taken the day after registration to Yukon River Quest  (02.11.19) as we were very excited to go to paddle right after. So it was 25 km on the Emajõe river. Preparation counts Preparations for the upcoming Yukon River Quest 2020 took us to Lithuania last week. Dipole Challenge 2019 (230 km) from 15.11.19 to 16.11.19.  What can we say, it was a challenge! To consider the f