Eric "Sully" Sullivan of team Salomon/Crested Butte is a scrappy looking guy, but that didn't deter a foot-long fish from taking a shot at him during day three's long kayak leg.

"Fish were jumping around the boat all day long, but one jumped up and hit me in the PFD and in the chin. It scared me!"

Aside from the fish incident, Sully said the paddling was placid. "It was like paddling on a lake all day long," he said. "You didn't even need a spray skirt."