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The national marathon championships are taking place at Chester this weekend and a host of SHP paddlers are talking part.   Kate Jinks & Dave Barnes in the Div 8 k2 race.  They've never not placed at the nationals but this is their first national championship in div 8 and they came third which is a great achievement.

Matt Whittle was also racing in U16MK1, Florence Whittle in U14 FK1 and Cam Lambert in U14MK1 and Joe Whittle in Over 49 Veteran Men C1. I don't have their results yet.

Sunday morning sees Jonathan Evans racing in div 9 k1, Dave Barnes in div 8 k1 and Deb May in div 7 k1.  These races will start from 09:30 if anyone fancies coming up to watch.

Lots of club members are racing in the afternoon - and we have some new pairings: Ellie is teaming up with jenny Barber from Solihull in U16LK2,  Anita with Geoff Barber (Jenny's dad - also from Solihull) in the open K2 race and Matt Whittle is racing with Solihull's Tom Lusty in U16MK2.    Closer to home we also have Nick Stokes and Tim Bevan racing U14K2, the long standing Barnes-Jinks team racing in O44MK2 and Deb & Sam Rudd have teamed up for O34LK2.  The K2 races all kick off at 3pm.

It should be another good day tomorrow.

It was great to see a National Ranking Short Course slalom race being held at the club. Competitors were mainly from our club but also we had guests from Chester, Llangollen & Bryn Offa. Many thanks to all who helped in course construction and running of the event. Results and photo of Cameron Lambert and Matthew Whittle in the C2 here: