National
Go Canoeing Week
National Go Canoeing Week 2016
seems like a distant (but very pleasant)
memory now. During the week over
12,800 people took part and a fantastic
38,395 miles were logged on our
National Go Canoeing Week website!
EVENTS
Once again, we would like to say a huge
thank you to all who took part and celebrate
by sharing some of the great stories and
pictures from the week.
Our mascot MacGregor certainly had fun,
heading out around the country joining in
with many of you during the week.
Winners’ Stories
Throughout the week we had some great
prizes on offer and we were incredibly
impressed at the mileage some groups and
individuals racked up. We had some very
well deserved winners of our top prizes.
Top Individual
Top Club
Our top Individual Mileage winner was Peter Loy
The club that paddled the most miles were
Nottingham Kayak Club.
who spent many mornings getting on the water at 5.30am
and paddling throughout the day to clock up 227 miles
for the week. Peter says that he spent more time paddling
than sleeping for six days! His longest day of paddling saw
him take in 41.5miles over 8.5 hours. Peter won a Wave
Sport Ethos Blackout kayak, which was kindly supplied by
Perception Kayaks and he is donating it to his club, Hampton
Canoe Club.
RIO START UP PADDLE SERIES;
EVENTS NATIONWIDE!
They really went all out to accumulate a total of 2,730
miles and win themselves a Dagger Katana Club Kayak, a
Drift paddle and a Quest PFD, all from Palm Equipment.
The club being a marathon/sprint club took on the National
Go Canoeing Week initiative and clocked up many miles
from all ages, everyone on their weekly five-mile time trial
contributed, along with other miles accumulated through
early morning training sessions, afternoon sessions and
evening sessions.
Everyone from the club set out to try to see just how many
miles they could achieve! Even the recreational session for
beginners took on completing a mile or two on Sunday.
The Nottingham Hasler Marathon race was held on the first
weekend of Go Canoeing Week, so a healthy amount of miles
were totted up there, helping us achieve our overall mileage.
Everyone can get a taste of competition in our
fun filled events. It’s so easy to get involved,
let us get you started:
The club sends a big thanks to the club secretary, Norman
Mason, who made it his mission to make sure people used
the mileage totalisers that were put up in the clubhouse,
provided from the resources sent by the
Go Canoeing Team to record their miles paddled!
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