There was rain, rain, rain; on a wet and windy night 17 foolhardy (maybe hardy fools) set out for the Hadspen race with the water level high it was set to be a quick night. Dave got across the line first, knocking 2:20 off his previous best in a great paddle, Dylan made good use of starting with a group of time trial racers and worked with them to knock nearly 2 minutes off his time. James managed to hold off a fast finishing Phil Nelson with both knocking about 2 minutes off there respective bests; while Jozina was a bit further back knocking around 1:45 off her best. Tom snuck over the line in front of Alex, both with around 30 seconds improvement. While Mark rounded out the improvers with a 10 second PB. There were a few close to PB’s with Geoff, Colin and Claye all within ten seconds. We also welcomed Tim Chilcott for his first Hadspen race and Andrew Howell and James Down back for their first race this season; all were looking slippery.
Thanks Phil Barratt and Amanda Chong for sitting out in the rain and timing us, it is much appreciated. Results from this week are below.
Paddler | Handicap | Gun Time | Actual Time | Position | New Handicap |
Dave Allan | 14:57 | 59:17 | 44:20 | 1 | 17:19 |
Dylan Craw | 23:43 | 59:40 | 35:57 | 2 | 25:39 |
James Caspar | 16:12 | 59:44 | 43:32 | 3 | 18:07 |
Phil Nelson | 23:37 | 59:45 | 36:08 | 4 | 25:28 |
Jozina Macqueen | 7:26 | 60:25 | 52:59 | 5 | 8:42 |
Tom Mountney | 31:01 | 61:03 | 30:02 | 6 | 31:32 |
Alex Robinson | 26:17 | 61:05 | 34:48 | 7 | 26:48 |
Mark Rathmell | 29:09 | 61:26 | 32:17 | 8 | 29:18 |
Geoff Macqueen | 22:42 | 61:42 | 39:00 | 9 | 22:42 |
Colin Locke | 24:16 | 61:45 | 37:29 | 10 | 24:16 |
Claye Mace | 23:40 | 61:46 | 38:06 | 11 | 23:40 |
Adam Rolls | 23:44 | 61:58 | 38:14 | 12 | 23:44 |
Dane’ & Adam | 12:30 | 65:05 | 52:35 | 13 | 12:30 |
Richard Pearson | 33:18 | 71:29 | 38:11 | 14 | 24:03 |
Andrew Howell | 23:40 | 59:19 | 35:39 | NA | 25:57 |
James Down | 23:40 | 60:12 | 36:32 | NA | 25:04 |
Tim Chilcott | 23:40 | 58:46 | 35:06 | NA | 26:30 |
Amanda Chong | – | – | – | – | GO |
April Nelson | – | – | – | – | 11:05 |
Bill Williams | – | – | – | – | 3:18 |
Jack Bower | – | – | – | – | 14:36 |
Ken McLean | – | – | – | – | 23:59 |
Michael Peters | – | – | – | – | 26:41 |
Paul Walker | – | – | – | – | 28:16 |
Phil Barratt | – | – | – | – | 26:41 |
Check above for your handicap for next week, gun time will again be 6:30pm. If you miss your start time you can still race, have your time recorded and score points. New paddlers will be able to set their handicap time.
Check the main Hadspen page for more details.
See you all next week.