Stone slalom and Gailey hasler
Sunday, March 27th, 2011Lots of competition events going on today. Dave Reevey represented the club at Stone slalom today and a small team of flatties went off to Gailey haser; the bumpiest race in the region.
Ellie and Simone Orme (Burton) had a cracking start among the div 7 k2s and led the field from the first bend, winning by several boat lengths. Kate and Dave stayed clear of the washes in the same race coming 5 out of 8 boats entered.
Deb and Sam rather unexpectly entered div 6 (not really ideal after a winter of training with the lightnings with a max distance of 2km). With only 2 boats in the race the start was consolidated with div 5 k2s which made it really rather choppy and they only just managed not to swim. They chose the sane course of action and dropped back a little coming second in div 6. This got us a nice shiny shield and more points than we would have won in div 7 so a win all round really (although next time Jane will be in change of Sam's alarm clock).
Lauren and Ben did their second lightning races, Lauren winning U12 girls and Ben coming third in U10 boys being beaten by Ben Quitenden and Ben Aston. Clearly to be a cool U10 boy these days you need to be called Ben!


