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A small group of 5 travelled to stone today to get in some early winter slalom practice. On leaving Shrewsbury it was grey skies and rain but it brightened up nicely in Stone.

Arriving at 10am we warmed up by running around a football pitch then moved onto the water to practice a full length course which was split into three sections.

After an eventful lunch at Morrison's when David Reevey was dissapointed with the amount of toast he recieved compared to Gari we headed back for the second session of the day.

In the afternoon we practiced doing staggers with using the option of doing them either forwards or with a spin or a back-off.

Everyone found the day useful and we were lucky enough to be able to use the club house at Stafford & Stone Canoe Club to get changed in.

The next moving water slalom training day will be at Stone on Sunday December the 6th meeting at Stone at 10am.

Comiserations to Trentham Canoe Club whose Hasler race last weekend coincided with a severe weather warning of 75mph winds in the area. An early morning set of phone calls resulted in us deciding that discretion was the better part of valour and and that we weren't going to go.

It would seem that we were not the only ones as the results show an unfortunately low number of entries and lots of consolidated classes.  Hard luck to all our friends at Trentham - as I said in my email to Phil, no-one expects blue skies and sunshine in November, but we'd like a reasonable chance of staying ON the lake Fingers crossed for better next year.

The BCU Marathon website is in an even worse state than usual at the moment (apparently they're rebuilding it again) but the Trentham results are here

We've just (slightly belatedly) had the confirmed set of promotions and demotions from the Hasler Finals in Reading last month. At this remove it's probably not news any longer, but just to confirm:

Anita and Gari were promoted to Division 6

Connor and Joseph were promoted to Division 6

Dave and Kate were promoted to Division 8

Congratulations everyone.