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Banbury
& District Canoe Club Newsletter
BASINGSTOKE MARATHON Sunday 17th
May
The first Southern Region race of
the year is coming up soon. After the autumn races, the leading placings
were:
1. Reading 37
2. Falcon 31
3. Banbury 30
4=Basingstoke 29
4=Pangbourne 29
6. Southampton 18
With only the first four teams qualifying for the
Hasler final, we can’t afford to drop any points, so
we need to get as strong a team as possible
out for this race, to lift us up the league table. Basingstoke
will be strong in their home race, and Reading will score well, so the
aim for us must be to finish ahead of Falcon and Pangbourne.
If you are able to race, please sign up on the
sheet in the clubhouse, or contact Lisa Stone
patchworktatty[at]btopenworld.com . Entries are sent off on the
Tuesday before the race, so make sure you’re in time.
READING MARATHON Sunday 24th May
Races are like buses: none for ages, and then lots of them. Once
again, a good entry needed, so come and have a go if you are available.
TRAINING TIMES AND SESSIONS
It’s lovely to see so many people down at the club at the moment.
The place is really buzzing. Training group times are as follows: please
make sure that you are there in plenty of time because start time means
on the water for that time. If you are late, the session
will start without you.
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Progression Group (Under 12s) |
Thursdays. 5:00-6:00pm.
Saturdays 9:00-10:00am. |
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Progression Group (Over 12s and adults) |
Thursdays. 6:00-7:00pm.
Saturdays 9:00-10:00am. |
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Race Training |
Tuesdays. 6:30 -8:00pm.
Thursdays 6:30- 8:00pm.
Saturdays 10:00 – 11:30am. |
PROGRESSION GROUP TRAINING/RACING DAY
Many of the people in the progression group will soon be ready to
try their first race. We have targeted the Oxford Marathon (Sunday 21st
June) as an ideal first race, both for Under 12s and for older paddlers.
Prior to this, we are hoping to have a training and racing session on
the Thames at Oxford, probably on a Saturday, and hopefully with novice
paddlers from a couple of other clubs, too.
More details soon.
HELP NEEDED WITH COACHING
On Monday 1st June and Monday 8th June, we are running
coaching sessions for Guide groups in the evening; on Monday 22nd
June, we are holding an all day session for pupils at Chenderit School
as part of their activities week and on the afternoon/evening of Monday
29th June, we hope to hold some “Come and Try it” sessions as
par of National School Sports Week. Help from qualified coaches and from
other paddlers, junior and senior, would be very much appreciated.
Please e-mail Irene
Irene[at]gtrollright.fsnet.co.uk if you can help with the Guides;
Graham
graham.warland[at]coopermenvier.co.uk if you can help with the
Chenderit school and Dom
banburypaddler[at]yahoo.co.uk if you can help with the Come and Try
It session.
DOGGY PADDLE Sunday 10th May
One of the best paddles of the year. 19 miles on the River Avon,
from Leamington Spa to Stratford. It’s the only day of the year that
canoeists are permitted to paddle this entire route, and it really is
lovely. There will be more different types of boat on the water than
you’ll have ever seen; you get to paddle past Warwick Castle and
Charlecote House, plus some beautiful scenery.
It’s not a race, so do it how you like. Take a
racing boat and treat it like a time trial, or take an open canoe, lunch
and a bottle of wine and meander your way along. Or take something
plastic and hurl it down the five weirs en route.
If you are interested in taking part, contact Dom
banburypaddler[at]yahoo.co.uk. If you want more details, there is a
link from our club website.
NENE WILDWATER RACE Saturday 16th
May
Come and hurl a wavehopper or europa down the Nene course as fast as
you can. Practice is from 4:40 to 5:30 pm, with racing from 5:30 to
7:30pm. If you’ve never tried WWR before, it’s and excellent chance to
practice on the course.
If you are interested in taking part, please
contact Ian Warren
icwarren[at]tiscali.co.uk
WHITSUN TOUR Thursday 28th May
Something nice for half-term. A nine mile morning tour on the River
Cherwell, from Thrupp to Marston, in North Oxford. The finish is at the
Victoria Arms pub for lunch – nice chips, nice beer. The tour is nine
miles, and isn’t suitable for understern rudders unless they’re
protected, like the hody K2s for example. Other than that, use anything
– plastics, whoppers, Canadians, oversterns. If you’d like to take
part, please contact Graham Warland
graham.warland[at]coopermenvier.co.uk
STRATFORD TO CROPREDY CHALLENGE
On Sunday June 14th, we’re planning to run a
race/tour/relay, call it what you will, from Stratford-on-Avon to
Cropredy. Any money raised through fees of sponsorship will be donated
to Myeloma UK in memory of Hilary Thomas.
Irene will be sending out full details of the event very soon, but,
briefly: it’s 52 miles with 100 locks and takes in the River Avon, the
Stratford Canal, the Grand Union and the Oxford Canal. As with Neville’s
birthday paddle from Guildford to Cropredy, the relay should make it
perfectly feasible for all club members to take part, whatever their
ability or experience.
CLUB
BARBEQUE
On Sunday 31st May, after morning training, there will be a club
barbeque. More details soon.
INCOMMUNICADO
Julie Wood’s computer is currently broken, so if you need to contact
her, please do so by phone, rather than by e-mail. A reminder that club
membership fees are now overdue, and should be deposited, along with the
forms, in the Treasurer’s box in the clubhouse.
PROMOTIONS
Congratulations to the following, who have all been promoted this
month:
Mickey White Div 9 à
Div 7
Catherine Caton Div 9 à
Div 8
Steve Flynn Div 7
à Div 6
Alice Murphy Div 7 à
Div 6 |