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Wild Water Racing

Whilst Marathon and Sprint take priority, our third discipline is great fun. Take one wobbly boat, find some white water and head downstream as fast as you can.

The boats we usually use are called Wavehoppers, and most of the races we do take place at the Nene Whitewater Centre in Northampton, though events take place all over the country, and we run our own race on the Avon at Stratford.

We've had some success, too: our juniors were National team champions in 2006, and National Wavehopper Champions, too. Wev also picked up loads of individual medals, including  national championship titles for Vicky Hills, Megan Wood and Alice Murphy.

Have a look at the BCU Wildwater Racing Website

 

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Callum Chapman at the Nene Whitewater Centre

Becca Warren at the Nene.

Sophie Rooney at the Nene.
Descent Racing  
A mixture of Wild water racing and marathon. Take one fast-flowing river with plenty of rocky weirs; then take one fast, but fragile and wobbly racing boat. Put the two together and you've got Descent Racing. Not for the fainthearted, but brilliant fun. The descent season is short, but crammed into the Autumn months are a series of  races: The Great Ouse Race at Bedford, the Avon Descent at Stratford, the Stour Descent in Dorset, the Exe Descent in Devon (sadly not being held this year - hopefully next year), and the awesome Liffey Descent in Ireland. There are also ludicrously difficult international races like the Fish River Race in South Africa, and the Sella Descent in Spain.  

     
Mark Thomas & Laura Ferguson on the Avon Descent. Deon Lotter on the Fish River Race, South Africa      
     
Ian Warren on the Exe Descent Megan Wood on the River Mersey.