Burton Hasler
Warm, sunny day, lazing by the river bank eating chocolate brownies… well that was my experience anyway.
Others went racing (and I was insanely jealous) but Shropshire produced some cracking results.
Kate and Dave are nudging close to promotion with a tidy second place (”Just as well” said Kate “I was gtting bored with coming third all the time”) - only a boat length behind the winners of div 9 and would have come 4th in div 8 on that performance.
Marcus & Cam fought their way up the field to come second in div 7 - half a boat length behind Kath Nadal and her div 6 partner and a long way ahead of the team who came third.
Ellie had a reasonable race coming mid field in div 7 k1 but was beaten by Tom Lusty of Solihull who crossed the finishing line with the words “I beat Ellie, I’m happy now”. Ellie crossed the finishing line about 40 seconds later saying “I hate marathon; its three and a half miles too long). Personally, I think that sprint racing is 199.5 km short of something worth getting out of bed for - just as well paddlesport caters for lot of different paddlers!
Matt had a brilliant start and a great finish but was hampered by a dodgy shoulder in the middle. Andy (who was mostly having a bad race - but blaming it on the fact that I made him weed the veg bed yesterday ‘cos I can’t breath and bend over these days) overtook Matt part way through but Matt, clearly remembered Geoff Barber’s instructions to Jenny at Andy’s first race and dodgy shoulder or no, pulled a trickout of the hat and “beat the bald guy”.
Connor has a lot of the race on film so it will appear here shortly!