National Canoe Time Trial seriesEvent report and Results

Richmond Canoe Club – Canoe Time Trial

Hosts: Richmond Canoe ClubDate: 2nd August 2015

Location:Ham StreetCar Park, Richmond upon Thames,TW10 7RS

RESULTSLiz MurnaghanVicky Metcalfe

Basingstoke CCCFalcon CC

01:40:38 Open C2 sit&switch – female George Oliver Mk 2 1

Stuart Lovell Whistable CC 01:43:36 Open C1 sit&switch – male Apache C1 17’ 2Richard Baker/Paul Surrage Bishops Stortford 01:44:02 Open C2 sit&switch – male Wenonah Jensen V1 A Mixer 3Lucy Perry Falcon CC 02:01:54 Open C1 sit&switch – female The Darkness 4

Many thanks to Richmond Canoe Club for hosting the fifth round of the National Canoe Time Trial series, in conjunction with their Hasler event.

The weather was sunny with a strong downstream wind.

The ten mile course presented some very challenging canoeing conditions upstream of Teddington Lock and especially at the turn just up from Raven’s Ait. The wash from the armadas of pleasure craft, compounded by the refraction from the vertical banks certainly tested the skills (and balance) of the paddlers.

The Bishops Stortford canoe club C2 crew of Richard Baker and Paul Surrage have set an impressive benchmark at 1:44:03 in the Wenonah Jensen V1 A Mixer.

Liz and Vicky were back again in the GS MkII C2 and dispite an impressive paddle, just missed their PB by 12 seconds.

Stuart Lovell made some ground (water?) up on the C2s going upstream, but the crew boats managed the rough water better on the return leg and opened the gap. Even so he still beat his Wokingham time by 15 seconds.

The only female C1 paddler, Falcon canoe club’s Lucy Perry, had a rough ride in the chop and wash, but she coped brilliantly in the conditions to beat her Reading time by over a minute and a half.

Next event is being hosted by the Soar Valley Canoe Club in the Leicester area, on Sunday 13 th September.

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National Canoe Time Trial seriesEvent report and Results

Richmond TT course

Turn anticlockwise uptream of island

Start and finish at same place as Haslar event.

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Results from previous rounds:

WorcesterLucy Perry Falcon CC 1:55:00 Open C1 sit&switch – female The Darkness 2Stuart Lovell Whistable CC 1:39:23 Open C1 sit&switch – male Apache C1 17’ 1

ReadingLiz MurnaghanVicky Metcalfe

Basingstoke CCCFalcon CC 1:40:26 Open C2 sit&switch – female George Oliver Mk 2 1

Pete Jones Independent 1:47:09 Open C1 sit&switch – male Wenonah J203 2Lucy Perry Falcon CC 2:03:25 Open C1 sit&switch – female The Darkness 3

Leighton BuzzardStephen Windmill/Pete Jones Independent 01:43:04 Open C1 sit&switch – male Wenonah ICF 1Richard Crooks 01:55:39 Male C1 high-kneeler 2

WokinghamPete JonesSteve Windmill Independent 1:36:18 Open C2 sit&switch – male Wenonah ICF 1

Stuart Lovell Whistable CC 1:43:51 Open C1 sit&switch – male Apache C1 17’ 2Sean Martin Richmond CC 1:46:16 Open C1 sit&switch – male Wenonah J203 3Lucy Perry Falcon CC 1:57:43 Open C1 sit&switch – female The Darkness 4

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