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Re-arranged Worcester Hasler Race 3rd June

This is a Hasler qualifying event for the West Midlands Region.

VENUE: Worcester Canoe Club, Grandstand Road, Worcester, WR1 3EJ. Check in, refreshments, results, prize giving at Canoe Club. PARKING: Parking by the canoe club in Grandstand car park.

TIMETABLE:

9.00 – 10.30 Check in All Divisions

10.30 Lightning briefing

10:45 Lightning start

11:15 Briefing All Divisions

11.30 Start All Divisions

14.00 Prize Giving Hasler Races

COURSES: All paddlers will enter water by the clubhouse steps. The Courses will be

NOTE. There will NOT be a Div 1 K2, Div 2 K2 or Div 3 K2 event, only K1’s for those three divisions.

Singles Doubles Distance Laps Portages

Div 1,2,3 12 miles 2 2

Div 4, 5, 6 Div 4, 5, 6 8 miles 2 1

Div 7, 8, 9 Div 7, 8, 9 4 miles 1 0

Lightning and Fun race 2 miles 1

Anker Valley Report

9 competitors set off from Hereford for the Anker Valley Hasler race, all in Div 7, so Div 7 was guaranteed to have a decent turn out. 3 K2's and 3 K1's. This event saw the return of the senior Spencer’s racing for the first time in some xxx years, Lynn and John out to reclaim there spot at the top, Barry and Andrew out to make up the numbers.
For the K1's Bryony and Dave were looking forward to a good clean fight and Alison a little apprehensive in her first K1 race.

Arrival at Anker valley was a bit of a surprise, a large entry of 23 boats in the K1 event made for a frantic start, by contrast, 5 K2's (3 from Hereford) was a little less intimidating. The K2 event was dominated from the start by Kay and Tony with a flying start, Barry and Andrew working hard to pick up the tail wash with Lynn and John repeating the excersise for third. The other two were a little further down the field. A good clean scrap followed with some discussion as to how many bridges, where was the turn etc. As it happens the turn was nicely tucked away on one of the narrower parts of the canal so some frantic backwards / forwards, cutting and slicing was guaranteed. The return was led by Barry and Andrew with Kay and Tony close up on the wash.

One of the features of this event are the Barges with holiday makers, this proved decisive for Lynn and John (and a large number of K1's as the leading pair of K2's overtook a barge, the same barge was taken by the wind and succeed in partially blocking the canal, nearly pinching Lynn and John against the canal wall, as a result the result was skewed somewhat.

The K1's had a more dramatic start with Bryony and Dave testing the depth while Alison surveyed the carnage and tiptoed apologetically through. Dave and Bryony clearly motivated by there dip soon caught Alison and moved up through the field In many respects the K1's had the harder paddle as the water was very choppy due to the numbers and start order.

The finish saw the first promotions in Div 7 K2 at Anker valley for at least 6 years with both Kay / Tony and Barry / Andrew up to div 6, a surprise for both crews. Bryony recovered to finish 13th, Alison 20th and Dave came in 23rd. All in all an eventful day with 5 points for Hereford on the board putting Hereford in 9th place in the Midlands Hasler series.

Current Standings in Hasler Series

Worcester Marathon Race 29th April Postponed

WORCESTER MARATHON AND ASSESSMENT RACES Due to the high river levels (about 2m over the normal banks) the Worester Marathon Race and Assessment Race have been Postponed.. No Event will take place at worcester this weekend.. A new date for the Hasler Race will be notified ASAP.. Any Assessment Race replacement will be notified through the MRC website. 

Learn to Kayak Session Postponed

Unfortunately due to the heavy rain this week the river is much higher than normal and the Learn to Kayak session for the 28th April has been postponed. A new date will be confirmed.

Hereford Kayak Club Achieves Club Mark Accreditation!

Hereford Kayak Club is very proud to annouce that we have achieved Club Mark accreditation. This has been a long time coming and a lot of hard work and effort by a number of people but especially Kay and Tony Spencer and Lee Champ.

More information about Club Mark can be found here: http://www.clubmark.org.uk/about/about-clubmark

STOP PRESS - Cianchi Man breaks the hour!

Dave Cianchi, smashed his personal best time, by well over a minute, in the last Winter time trial for this season, setting a new time of 59-30
Well done Dave.

Girls C K2 Partner Needed!

Looking for a K2 partner for Sarah Ellis (Girls C) at the April Regatta in Nottingham. Please contact Lee for more information

Gailey Hasler - Sunday 1 April

Please let Lee know by 1800, Monday 26 March if you want to enter

AGM Meeting

Thursday 29th March at Hereford Rowing Club

Curry from 7pm meeting starts at 7:30pm

Safety Notice

A signing out book is being put in our boat shed and should be used by all paddlers every time you go on the river.
It is individual members responsibility to sign themselves (plus any guests etc) out before each water session and back in after leaving the water. If you are planning on a long session, this should be entered in the 'comments' column.

The purpose of the book is to increase members safety and bring HKC in line with the recommendations of the BCU and Clubmark.

Thank you everyone for your cooperation with the introduction of this new procedure.

The Signing Out Book will go live on; Saturday 21 January 2012

Bruce Selected for GB Team!

Hereford Kayak Club paddler Bruce Jones(16) has been selected to go to France as part of the GB Junior Development Team,
he will travel to St Laurant Blangy the weekend of 28/29th January, and compete in two disciplines 2000 km and 200 m sprints, Bruce has also been selected in February to join a group of 12 athletes to train together, (Building the Podium) working through the year towards selection for the Olympic Hopes Regatta at the end of the season.

Last weekend Bruce raced with his partner James Missen from Bradford Upon Avon, on the Thames in Weybridge, in their first U18 race over 13 miles, being piped on the line into 2nd place.

Racing canoeing is a diverse sporting discipline from the character building Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race (125 miles) which many schools compete in for general character building, competing against other schools, CCF, and also Duke of Edinburgh, to the fast Olympic disciplines ranging from 200m to a 1000m, in which we have the current Olympic Gold Medalist Dr Tim Brabbants, you may have seen him in the BMW press releases.

Anyone interested in trying Kayaking should get in touch to arrange a taster session

Hereford Kayak Club AGM

Thursday 29th March, time to be confirmed

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