A beautiful day turned into a great night to get out on the water with clear skies and only a light breeze to contend with. After not having a boat available last week April returned and knocked 2:30 off her PB, in a great paddle; while Jozina continued her run of improvement knocking 90 seconds off the PB. Geoff and Bill, both regular improvers continued their good runs knocking around 85 and 60 seconds off their PB’s, I was next over the line finally getting some improvement of around 50 seconds. Paul and Andrew were next over the line, Paul showing heaps of speed and Andrew doing his best to hold onto the back of Paul on the home straight. Richard made good use of making it onto the water almost on time, giving himself some rabbits to chase he managed to knock almost 40 seconds off his best. The rest were a bit down on their best times but had an enjoyable paddle, except for Alex who had some trouble at the turn around after looking pretty good on the way up the river.
Thanks to Mark Rathmell for timing (and being race photographer) this week it is much appreciated. Results from this week are below.
Paddler | Handicap | Gun Time | Actual Time | Position | New Handicap |
April Nelson | 11:05 | 59:09 | 48:04 | 1 | 9:17 |
Jozina Macqueen | 8:42 | 60:04 | 51:22 | 2 | 6:00 |
Geoff Macqueen | 22:42 | 60:18 | 37:36 | 3 | 19:42 |
Bill Williams | 3:18 | 60:42 | 57:24 | 4 | GO |
Adam Rolls | 23:44 | 60:48 | 37:04 | 5 | 20:14 |
Paul Walker | 28:16 | 60:50 | 32:34 | 6 | 24:43 |
Andrew Howell | 25:57 | 60:56 | 34:59 | 7 | 22:18 |
Phil Nelson | 25:28 | 61:41 | 36:13 | 8 | 21:10 |
Phil Barratt | 26:41 | 61:50 | 35:09 | 9 | 22:22 |
Richard Pearson | 25:03 | 61:56 | 36:53 | 10 | 20:25 |
Claye Mace | 23:40 | 61:57 | 38:17 | 11 | 19:21 |
Dave Allan | 17:19 | 62:33 | 45:14 | 12 | 13:00 |
Alex Robinson | 26:48 | 67:07 | 40:19 | 13 | 22:29 |
Amanda Chong | – | – | – | – | NA |
Colin Locke | – | – | – | – | 19:57 |
Dane’ & Adam | – | – | – | – | 8:12 |
Dylan Craw | – | – | – | – | 21:21 |
Jack Bower | – | – | – | – | 10:17 |
James Caspar | – | – | – | – | 13:48 |
James Down | – | – | – | – | 20:46 |
Ken McLean | – | – | – | – | 19:40 |
Mark Rathmell | – | – | – | – | 24:59 |
Michael Peters | – | – | – | – | 22:22 |
Tim Chilcott | – | – | – | – | 22:11 |
Tom Mountney | – | – | – | – | 27:14 |
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. Old paddlers your handicap is about three minutes lighter for the next couple of weeks due to a known absence of the frontmarker.
Check the main Hadspen page for more details.
See you all next week.