Sprint Canoe Nationals – Busters closing the gap.

Nationals this year was held in Adelaide and as a result a lot of planning goes into to getting the boats shipped over and back, finding accomodation, booking flights, trying to keep the costs down, getting time off work or university and of course last minute changes. We had 5 competitors, all open male : Nick Dawe, Arnold Graf, Mitch Hughes, Robert Berzins and Paul Bates. With them in support was our coach and mentor, Brian and Nick's girlfriend.

By all accounts, everyone raced well, times were slow for all competing, and no one was quite sure why. But that was the same for all, our Busters have improved their results and closed the gaps on their opposition. So chipping away where it counts and building for a stronger future in paddling. We have to remember our paddlers are relative 'newbies' to paddling only having a few years in K1's and have to do a few more k's on the water. So next stop is the winter strength and conditioning phase and the NSW marathon series. Full results below. Sorry for limited photos.

We also wish all our members competing at Aussies 2014 this week all the best. 🙂

Results for Southside Paddlers  ( Paul's results can be found on the link below, he forgot to list his club as southside, so I can't get him in this summary)