Weyside 2011

A select troupe of paddlers turned up on 3^rd
April to take up the 2011 Weyside Challenge. The challenge
is a 28 mile course starting from the Waterside Centre,
to paddle downstream over five locks to Pyrford Lock and back
to continue on upstream over a further three locks to
Farncombe finally to return to the Waterside Centre.

One K2 crew chose to paddle the 17 mile downstream leg (to
Pyrford), three K1s and three K2 crews chose to paddle the 11
mile upstream leg (to Farncombe) and one lone paddlers
decided to take on the whole 28 mile distance. This might
not have been a wise move and in retrospect Malcolm probably
wishes he had called it a day on passing the Waterside Centre
the first time!

Name	Class	Pyrford & back (11 miles)	Farncombe & back (17 miles)	Weyside (28 miles
Malcolm Blowers (MER)	K1	3:31:33	2:54:25	6:25:58
John Lea/David Waterfield (WEY)	Vet K2	3:59:49
James Cordery (WEY)	K1		1:33:28
Shane Houting (WEY)	K1		1:40:01
Chris Simpson / Emily Gillmer (WEY)	K1		1:47:28
Kim Hollman / Adrian Hollman (MER)	Jnr/Vet K2		1:55:40
James Halliwell (WEY)	Jnr K1		1:55:59
Dave Halliwell / Charlie Halliwell (WEY)	Jnr/Vet K2		1:58:32

2011 Racing Calendar

The Racing Calendar is now up on the marathon canoeing website.

Hare and Hounds 2 (28 December)

While much of the country was either snowed in or iced up the second Hare and Hounds ran as normal on the river Wey in Guildford. A handicap start from outside the clubhouse, portage over Millmead lock, turn at St Katherine's Lock (where the ice was just beginning to form) and all the way back to a hot shower, coffee and a bacon butty. 10 km in all, or 9.6 km if you have a GPS and want to be pedantic.

There is a link to the results here while our WebMaster has something better to do than sit in front of a keyboard.

Results

U14's Dash-Hound & H&H's

Well done to all the U14's who raced our new Dash-Hound Race Series along with the Hare & Hounds.

We had 15 kids taking part, all doing incredibly well. (There were a couple of 'old girls' who the kids had taken along for the ride, but I reckon they need to ditch those two a.s.a.p. !)

We got really positive feed back from the other two clubs who took part & all the kids seemed to thoroughly enjoy the friendly competition !( Matt & Charlie I thought you were supposed to be mates !!)

Huge well done to Kuba Cranmer for getting the u10 race record on his first attempt ! Well done to Dan James who also did the full H&H's & still had a smile on his face when he finished !

Other U14's who got records where Joe Hayman-Joyce C1 U14 (Max J said he enjoyed getting the record for 60 seconds ! & watch out next time Joe Boy !!)

Gabi De Ferrer u10 also got the record with impressive style !

See you all next time !

Pam, Kathryn & Alison

First Dash-hound race:

'Kayak races are really good fun because you are racing with all your friends and just competing against yourself. When I did my race it was really good because when I got into town people were there looking and cheering and shouting nice things!'

Isla Ward (aged 9 soon to be 10 !!)

Today I took part in the first Wey U14’s Biathlon, a 3km paddle to Seven Arches and a 2km run around the ‘big block’. This was my first home race after taking part at Richmond last week.

I paddled well and I had got ahead by a couple of places when I came off the water for the start of the run. The run was tiring but managed to find some energy for the finish.

I came 1^st in the U10 boys’ race and 6^th overall. It was great being presented my trophy by Rachel Cawthorne.

I enjoyed taking part, although it would have been nice if the sun was shining!

BY ALEX BICKNELL

Richmond Hasler 23/10/10

Kuba Cranmer's Post on the Richmond Race

I was a little more confident because it was my second race so I knew more what i was doing, but I still felt a little nevous.

At first i thought that I woudn't be able to keep up with them, but I managed it more or less by conserving my strength till i got round the second island and past the bridge.

I now see what they mean by river conjestion.

I really appreciate the support I was given - thanks to all the people cheering me on I managed it.

I would recommend racing to everybody out there, it's incredible fun.

thank you all,

kub(a)