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Tuesday 29 Oct – Harbour Training Report

Total paddlers 6: 4 x K1, 1 x K2. Air Temp: 7ºC Getting Cold! Wind speed: 1 occasional breeze Conditions: Calm/River Traffic Bumpy Visibility: Clear / Dark. Session: Sets: 80 strokes @80%, 20 strokes @100% Highlights: Exceptional sprints Top paddlers: TT TT! Social: Club AGM in Nova Scotia Next Race: Read more…

By markheeley, 12 yearsOctober 31, 2013 ago
Flat water

Want to get into Kayak Racing? What to know first…

Kayak racing is an athletic discipline also involving a high level of skill in boat stability. Whilst all kayaks could technically be termed as K1’s (single paddler), K2’s (double paddler) or K4’s (four paddlers), these terms are more officially used to describe racing kayak designs. Please note that we do Read more…

By markheeley, 12 yearsOctober 25, 2013 ago
Flat water

Thursday 24 Oct – Harbour Training Report

Total paddlers 7: 1 x K1, 3 x K2. Air Temp: 13ºC Wind speed: 2 light wind Conditions: Mild chop Visibility: Clear / Dark. Session: Wash hanging with sprints Highlights: Top paddlers: KS! Social: Pint at Cottage Next Race: 3/11 Avon Descent, Stratford Next training – Tues 29/10, 6.15pm + Read more…

By markheeley, 12 yearsOctober 25, 2013 ago
Flat water

Tues 22 Oct – Harbour Training Report

Total paddlers 5: 3 x K1, 1 x K2. Air Temp: 14ºC Wind speed: 4 blustery Conditions: Choppy Visibility: Clear / Dark. Session: Highlights: Top paddlers: Social: Next Race: TBC Next training – Thurs 24/10, 6.15pm. NIGHT PADDLING SAFETY NOTICE White navigation lights needed for bow AND stern. Buoyancy aids Read more…

By markheeley, 12 yearsOctober 23, 2013 ago
Flat water

Thurs 17 Oct – Harbour Training Report

Total paddlers 8: 6 x K1, 1 x K2. Air Temp: 12ºC Wind speed: 0 still Conditions: Millpond Visibility: Clear / Dark – high reflection from ambient light. Session: Pyramid training 20/30/40/50. Highlights: Steve paddling into landing stage (!). Evangelos (aka Evo) standing starts. Top paddlers: Evo! SB! KS! Social: Read more…

By markheeley, 12 yearsOctober 18, 2013 ago
Flat water

Tues 15 Oct – Harbour Training Report

Total paddlers 6: 2 x K2 & 2 x K1. Air Temp: 6ºC (Coldest this autumn so far) Wind speed: 0 still Conditions: Millpond Visibility: Clear / Dark – high reflection from ambient light. Session: Steady to fast, intermittent winter wash hanging and race pace training. Highlights: SB/H in K2 Read more…

By markheeley, 12 yearsOctober 16, 2013 ago
Flat water

Thurs 10 Oct – Harbour Training Report

Total paddlers 11: 3 x K2’s & 1 x K1 training together on washes, plus 2 other K2 crews paddling separately, (1 crew member complete novice). Air Temp: 8ºC Wind speed: 1 calm/light Conditions: Millpond/ripples Visibility: Clear / Dark Session: Wash hanging, racing pace training for Fowey at weekend. Highlights: Read more…

By markheeley, 12 yearsOctober 11, 2013 ago
Flat water

Tues 8 Oct – Harbour Training Report

Total paddlers 7: 3 x K2’s & 1 x K1 training together. Air Temp: 13ºC Wind force: 2 light breeze Conditions: ripples/bumpy Visibility: Clear / Dark Session: Moderate with turn training between tunnel and bridges in prep for weekend race. Highlights: MH & SB in K2 with intolerable boat lean! Read more…

By markheeley, 12 yearsOctober 9, 2013 ago
Flat water

Flat Water Kayak Racing – Training Sessions: Tues & Thurs, 6pm (ish!)

The lack of posts on this Racing page might indicate that not much happens at Bristol in this discipline..! So in order to restore some sort of profile here, I hope to help stimulate this page back into life with posts about the activities of the kayak racing and training Read more…

By markheeley, 12 yearsOctober 8, 2013 ago
Flat water

Inter-club training postponed

Message from Mark Heeley: Inter-club training scheduled for Sat 18th Sept. POSTPONED Unfortunately, we will have to move this date also because the Bristol Harbourmaster has now reopened the docks to business as usual as a result of postponing the race. We’ll let all clubs know confirmed dates next year. Read more…

By Conor O'Neill, 15 yearsSeptember 17, 2010 ago

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