Rob is skiing this week so James stepped in at the last minute for this race. Here we are at a busy start in the Waterman. James is a paddler of many years so the time on the water was straight forward for him. We maintained a high average speed through the water for our boat and enjoyed having a boost from river flow. Amongst the Senior/Veteran men we came 30th out of 39. We were very happy with our time of 2hrs 7mins. The last section upstream on the Thames was slog to Reading Canoe Club at Caversham. Congratulations to the guys in the Klepper - incredible effort.Crew 2 had a good race with no technical problems and put in a good time in their Ace Exporer.
In this race we saw at least five racing K2 & K1 boats tip over and we were thankful for our stable sea kayak. The racers are awfully polite when they look at the boat and say things like "interesting boat". We have to keep reminding ourselves that this is all good training for DW as the racing boats glide past us. We had a small pack of about 6 boats go past us with some of them wash hanging and some real choice language as they jostled for position or the wash hanger bumped the boat in front.
Thanks again to our support crews who did a great job including taking this picture.
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