For 2008:

• START TIME: Mandatory Pre-Race Meeting at 10:20 a.m. First heat goes off at 11:00am central time - Sharp.
• ENTRY FEE $26.00 before April 12/$36.00 after April 12.
• Fleece Zip "T" Neck shirts to first 48 competitors registered by April 12, 2008.
• Many prize drawing giveaways.
• Same challenging, spectator friendly, up/down stream, stiff current looped course.
• SEEDED CLASSES: NO RACE DAY ENTRY. (late entries will go into the open class).
• Open Class racers must finish within 13 minutes of Open winner to qualify for purse.

A truly unique C1 marathon canoe race
In the Burlington C1 Pursuit race format, the field compresses as the race progresses - just the opposite of what you might be used to.
This is an engineered canoe race, as much as that is possible. The course selection and layout, time duration, seeded system and event rules are all designed to deliver an increasingly more exciting race - right up to a series of high intensity finish line sprints.
In the Pursuit race, C1 'rabbits' are released onto the race course in seeded heats at predetermined time intervals.
Then, when all the rabbits are off (and running for their lives), we set loose the 'dogs' of the Open Class, and the hunt is on.
The Pursuit unfolds over a technically dynamic river course filled with other seeded boats, hard natural turns, buoy turns, heavy current upstream segments, long and short shallows and bogs, and moderate hazards.
The result is a continuously evolving lead, lots of individual little dramas out on the race course itself, and an intensely high energy mass finish.