Reading Canoe Club

02/11/2006

Bits

You can get the results from Pangbourne (a couple of weeks ago)

Last week's Windsor results are also available, but they've got some obvious mistakes (people shown as retired, who weren't) so maybe leave it another week or so.

This years Yak Exe Descent is palnned for Sunday 19 November, strting from the normal spot at The Salmon Ponds, Tiverton and finishing as usual at the Quay in Exeter. One again there will be classes for Racing K1s and K2s, Down River Racers, Touring Kayaks, Slalom Kayaks and Canoes, with many sub divisions in each class. To date we have sent out almost 500 entry details and forms but anyone wishing to get a copy can down load from the webb site of YAK EQUIPMENT our sponsors see www.yak-paddling.com At present the unexpected wet weather has topped up the river nicely- its a long way away just yet but we are hopeful for a good level of water. Dennis Walls

22/10/2006

Change of Webmaster

As of now, the Reading Canoe Club web site takes on a new webmaster - Daniel Seaford.
I've been looking after the site for many years now. You've noticed the decline in topical news and comment, combined with a tardiness of updates. I am unable to offer the site the service I once did. I've rather enjoyed myself over the years and am a little sad to be stepping back. Apologies to the many headaches 'The Management' have suffered as a result of my comment. Much of it, however, did need to be said.

This site will continue.
Cheers!
Peter
PS - Please continue to address club business/boat advert/web related emails to info@reading-canoe.org.uk

22/10/2006

Training Day

Marathon Development Squad K2/C2 Training Day, Reading CC 10am, Saturday 4th November 2006.

[flyer .doc]

21/10/2006

Marlow Hasler Race

Marlow Hasler race has been cancelled due to water conditions

Call received from the Southern Region Hasler coordinator that race is cancelled. We are still waiting for an update on their website, however, which appears not to be updated since 2005

Marlow Canoe Club website [here]

21/09/2006

The Best

Undeniably better than all the rest.

Reading Canoe Club - Hasler Champions 2006.

The rest can only dream.

21/09/2006

Sobeka

See squad report form this international regatta. [document .doc]

21/09/2006

Ouse

2006 Great Ouse Race organised by the Herts Canoe Club. This year the race takes place on Saturday 11th November 2006.

[details .doc]

06/09/2006

Interclub Regatta Report

First of all - thanks to everyone on the Reading Sprint Team throughout this year, and well done for some excellent racing under fairly extreme conditions!

Well done to Matthew Mainprize for his lightning under-12 trophy. Very flash looking cup!

There were some great results right through the racing categories - with some very promising performances in the lower divisions. I missed a lot of the races due to trying to keep up with the admin side - but my personal fave was the storming win by the mens A k4 on Sunday. Also worthy of special mention is the valiant
"mothers K4" which swam at the start but got back in & completed the race - well done ladies! I'll keep quiet about the Billingham/King TC2....

All weekend we were battling the elements - with 20mph winds and huge waves along the regatta course. Racing was abandonned on Saturday afternoon for safety reasons - the safety boats couldn't keep up with the number of capsizes. On Sunday racing was suspended for an hour, and then a compromise was reached which allowed us to continue racing but over 200m instead of 500m - with the proviso that anyone that didn't want to race did not have to. The Reading Sprint Team enthusiastically swung back into action and there was some great racing. From a spectator's point of view the 200m distance was great, as we could see the whole of the race from start to finish.

Unfortunately we lost a lot of ground due to the cancellation of the 200m and LD races on Saturday, where we had expected to get a lot of good K1 results.
The final results came in as :
WEY 475
LBZ 455
Ric & NOT 440
RDG 435

So we were 5th. But Sept 2007 had better watch out - we will be back!

Hope everyone enjoyed themselves & that the journeys back were OK.

Kris

PS - only 7 months til April regatta.......

18/08/2006

Nationals Photographs

We are there! Photos from all 8 sets of races of the Nationals weekend [here]

13/08/2006

Nationals Photographs

Race A

Nationals 2006 - Reading - 12th-13th August 2006. All prints will be from a higher resoution file than shown here. A5 = £3.00 or A4 = £4.00 On disk £2.00 for the first and £1.50 for additional photos on same disk. Send cheque payable to 'B.Craigie' to 'B.Craigie, Reading Canoe Club, The Warren, Caversham, Reading, RG4 7TH'

List file number, size and copies required. Also your Club and a contact number along with your return address.

More races to follow

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MEDALS

Tim Brabants: European Champion, 1000m K1. 2 seconds clear. It appears that Tim Brabants is back on form. Congratulations.

Edward Rutherford, Bronze, World Cup Marathon (Junior K1).

Claire Spencer, Silver, World Cup Marathon (Junior K1).

(World Cup Marathon link)

Great News of Reading @ Nottingham Regatta:

Congratulations to all our sprint paddlers on some excellent performances at the weekend at Nottingham.

• Hannah and Harry won their Hody K2 by a mile.
• In girls D Amelia made final A and Izzy final B, showing good progress. Jess posted a 2.22 PB in her Girls C 500 final which ranked her 4th in Final A.
• Daniel Colyer won all the Boys D races (K2 with Jacob), and will be promoted to boys C (or will it be Boys B?).
• Tom Mainprize and Jack Sealey had a good first regatta in Boys B, Tom making the A finals. Both posted new PBs.
• Chris Sealey and Ollie Lang both made PBs in their K1s in Boys B/A respectively.
• Amo performed well in Girls A as ever.
• Pip made a new PB in Boys A with a 1:50 K1 500, and winning both K2 and K4 races.
• Andy and Stuart were 4th in both Mens A K2 races, close behind the senior squad crews.
• Tom Daniels had an excellent regatta in K1 with his 1.43 K1 500 showing a step-change in his performance level.
• Abi won all 3 womens K1 events.

• Gent - (BCU u15/u14 development team) - Tom Mainprize & Jack Sealey
• Piestany - (GBR u18 Team) - Stuart Hastings, Andy Daniels, Pip Ede
• Duisberg - (GBR senior world cup team) - Abi Coulson & Tom Daniels

WSB

Winter weather played its part at the second Waterside race on Sunday. As if a route of nearly eighteen miles from Newbury to Aldermaston Wharf and back wasn’t enough, the course was made more difficult by a sheet of ice that extended from near Heales lock down to Woolhampton lock, requiring a kilometre long portage. Eventually the last boat on the course, an intrepid plastic K2, smashed a path – but by that time the eager beaver early starters had already made a second portage on their way back.

Wiki Daniels of Reading continued last week’s good form at Thameside 1 to finish nearly ten minutes clear in the ladies race. Clubmate Alison Galloway, still improving after a long absence from racing, was second - a marked step up from her fifth in the “A” race two weeks ago against much the same paddlers. Cokethorpe School’s Lena Beardsell was fourth and Wokingham’s Samantha Rippington paddled well above her divisional ranking to finish fifth.

The Senior K1 was won by Ali Rosier of Bradford on Avon in 2:17:32, but once again this time was improved by Duncan Blythe of Wokingham who recorded 2:17:04 to win the Veterans class in a new course record for the Vets.

Reading also claimed the Junior K1 in which Pip Ede followed a plan that was more training session than flat-out race to finish in a modest 2:41:05, ahead of Dean Terry (Wey) and Aaron Jordan (Maidstone).

As usual, the K2 classes were more popular than K1 and highly competitive. The Senior K2 was won Purchase and Hissett, once of Pangbourne. The Ladies K2 was won by Lamph and Broughton of Richmond, ahead of Norwich’s Bee and Hunter - victors at Waterside A.

Elsewhere the top prizes seem to have been reserved for family groups. Twins Tim and Philip Pearse of Cokethorpe continued their successful preparation this year’s junior DW. They headed a large junior field to finish in 2:28:32. Maycock & Maycock of Exeter (Vets K2), Beard and Beard of Royal (Mixed K2) and Bowditch and Bowditch of Ealing (Junior Vet K2) all won. Reading’s Tom Patterson was third in the Junior Vet with rapidly improving novice partner Jake Holland of Adventure Dolphin.

Good to see John Drummond back on the water and competing again after his enforced layoff.

[article by Phil Ede]