Racing
The Club encourages both adult and junior members to participate in races. The calendar contains details and dates of sprint and marathon races. For more information about marathon races please visit the Marathon Canoeing website.
A number of our paddlers take part in the Devizes to Westminster Race which takes place every Easter weekend.
January 27th, 2012 (Shirley)
A big well done to Hafsa Kabeer who has just become Junior Female Sports Personality of the Year in the Reading Sports Awards. The award was presented in an all-star ceremony at Reading’s Hilton Hotel.
January 11th, 2012 (Shirley)
This Saturday is the 3rd of the Winter Club Time Trials ~ Start time will be 10.00am
The format will be as the two before Christmas,with a choice of one, two or three standard Time Trial loops (down around bottom island,up around top island and back to club). First loop to be a handicap start, and second a mass start, with a 10 minute break between each. Ideal for a performance measurement for those of you in winter training for D/W and Watersides!
All boat types welcome, just come along. Weather forecast: Dry,sunny with light winds.
Alan Freer
November 28th, 2011 (Shirley)
By Sam Rippington
Well done to all crews who took part in the Ross Warland Race at Banbury on Sunday 27th November. The club was very well represented, with entries in three different categories.
The first category was K1 Relay. Our junior mixed team consisted of George, Oscar and Kieran. They completed the 20 miles as a relay in a time of 4 hours and 10 minutes.
The second category was K2, raced by Dave Seward and Paul Appleby with a time of 3 hours and 2 minutes.
Alan Freer competed in the K1 category, completing the 20 miles in one go. He finished 16th out of 29 people, in a time of 3 hours and 23 minutes.
The weather left something to be desired, with very strong winds. this was a fantastic effort by all our paddlers.
November 15th, 2011 (Shirley)
Now that the summer evening Time Trials have finished, in order to keep measuring performance through the winter months, a set of monthly Saturday morning Time Trials are being organised for all those interested in training for events next year (subject to winter water conditions). As usual this will be open to all boats K1,K2,C1,C2,O1.
As winter training should be more endurance based,there will be the choice of either one, two or three standard Time Trial circuits to be done,with approximately a ten minute rest between them in order to rest and refuel if required. Paddlers may chose to do the first only, the first and second, or all three (DW trainees!). Start time will be 10.00am, allowing the ultra keen to do the Park Run 5k first at 9.00am!
First circuit will be handicap start, second circuit a mass start,and third a handicap based on first circuit times. The timing will default to myself, unless anyone else is free on any of the days to volunteer.
Dates set to avoid any winter race weekends are provisionally:
Saturday 3rd December
Saturday 14th January
Saturday 4th February
Ths avoids winter race dates of Sun 27th November Warland Banbury,Sun 11th December Basingstoke,Sun 8th January Richmond,and Sun 12th February Waterside A,and leaves any DW trainees free for a long paddle on Sundays.
September 29th, 2011 (Shirley)
Well done to those who raced in the Pangbourne Halser race last Sunday:
Div 6 Singles - Sara Kabeer 6th place
Div 7 Singles - Remi Lucas 9th and Sam Rippington 14th
Div 7 Doubles – 3rd place Ed Pearson / Jamie Boyt,and 5th place Dominique Lucas/ Catherine Gaffard
Div 9 Singles - 6th place Hafsa Kabeer ( just 2 minutes behind Sir Steve Redgrave and despite capsizing at the start), George Reid 11th and Charles Lunt 17th.
Lightnings Under 12′s Rhys Page 3rd, Adi Wakelin 5th and Henry Lunt 9th, plus Rhys and Adi 4th in Hody doubles.
Full results and promotions can be viewed here
July 20th, 2011 (Shirley)
Well done to those who raced at Southampton Hasler Sunday 17th July:
1st place Division 4 Doubles Dave Seward/Paul Appleby
1st place Hody Doubles Under 12 Girls Hafsa Kabeer
1st place Lightning Singles Under 12 Girls Hafsa Kabeer
4th place Division 6 Singles Sara Kabeer
May 17th, 2011 (Shirley)
Well done to the club paddlers at the first Hasler race of the season at Basingstoke on Sunday 15th May:
Sam Rippington/Emily Hewitt Div 8 Doubles – 1st place
Catherine Gaffard/Dominique Lucas Div 7 Doubles – 2nd place
Magnus Gregory Div 6 Singles – 7th place
Remi Lucas Div 7 Singles – 5th place
April 19th, 2011 (Shirley)
Good Luck to all our paddlers in this years Devizes to Westminster Race which takes place over the Easter weekend. They are listed below with their number so you can follow their progress – click here to go to DW website
340 Marion Quemby/Christine Wilson
349 Brian Kelly/Steve Kelly
377 Oliver Hicks/Steve Colman
380 Leroy Townsend/Anabel Brejon
398 Andrew Brooks/James Weedon
404 Derek Mee/Catherine Mee
412 Kathryn Hall/Reni Miklos
750 Tim Pegg
March 30th, 2011 (Shirley)
The racing time trial takes place on a Monday evening. Please arrive in time to be on the water for 18:30. All abilities are welcome to join in. If you haven’t done the full course before you are welcome to start off with the junior course.
2011 Time Trial Results
September 13th, 2010 (Shirley)
It has been a very exciting few weeks for the Club’s racing paddlers. First of all, in the Longridge Hasler race, Magnus Gregory made an enormous leap from division 9 to division 6 in his first ever division 9 race! A fantastic achievement – well done Magnus!
There then followed a very successful weekend at Nottingham for Sam Rippington. First of all she was elected to the BCU Sprint Committee. Then she was promoted to Canoe C.
Then at the Henley Hasler race Sara Kabeer was promoted to division 6, Thomas Burns to division 8 and Magnus Gregory and Remi Lucas were promoted to divisions 6 and 7 respectively, following their first doubles race together.
At the Pangbourne Hasler Race there was more good news as Ed Pearson was promoted to division 8.
Well done everyone
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