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Sunday past as few of us entered the Canoe Assoc of NI Slalom Race event at Shaw's Bridge.....
Samtha and myself ended up in boats with race bibs on, not sure what was going on! After an early registration [for a Sunday] we tried the course a few times and then lined up for our time trials.
I've never paddled competitively so am unused to the idea of rushing in a boat, never mind fitting body, boat and paddle between two narrow 'gates'! All was revealed when the professionals kicked off and made it look dead easy, just pop the head through while boat and boday are already heading towards the next gate...never managed to figure out how they got the paddle through so effortlessly.
Anyroad my first time was 170 sec with 3 gates touched [more like the wind moved them as I dashed past..] which computed to 176sec. i haven't got my second time of any photos back yet but await with baited breath...
Sunday past as few of us entered the Canoe Assoc of NI Slalom Race event at Shaw's Bridge.....
Samtha and myself ended up in boats with race bibs on, not sure what was going on! After an early registration [for a Sunday] we tried the course a few times and then lined up for our time trials.
I've never paddled competitively so am unused to the idea of rushing in a boat, never mind fitting body, boat and paddle between two narrow 'gates'! All was revealed when the professionals kicked off and made it look dead easy, just pop the head through while boat and boday are already heading towards the next gate...never managed to figure out how they got the paddle through so effortlessly.
Anyroad my first time was 170 sec with 3 gates touched [more like the wind moved them as I dashed past..] which computed to 176sec. i haven't got my second time of any photos back yet but await with baited breath...
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