Having followed the race from the warmth of either ours or Donna's house, the reality got a bit remote, but the driven snow outside the window at New Mills and the broken slates, blown from our roof, remind me what it was like.
The conditions this year make the results even more outstanding than they would have been in a good year.
Congratulations to Rich Golder on winning the Senior K1 in 15 hours 51 minutes 10 seconds.
Congratulations also go to Harriet for 5th place. Harriet also won both the Ladies K1 and the University K1 sub-classes with ease in a time of 17:27:12.
We watched the first day from the tow-path and enjoyed watching the NKC paddlers as far as Newbury. Fern & Cathy managed to reach there despite a flimsy boat giving up the ghost at Crofton. Fortunately Nigel had a few tricks with meths and duct tape and the boat was revived enough to get to Newbury. Sadly the same trick didn't work with the crew on the second day.
Richard was mostly moving too fast for us to keep up with him, but we managed a few photos of Harriet that will appear here in the next few days. Hopefully a few more comments or posts will be added by other NKC members who were in the vicinity.
Full result on the DW website at http://www.dwrace.org.uk/index.shtml
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