Graham racing the New Everest Last weekend was the 12th annual Green River Narrows race. 124 racers made it out there Saturday at high noon to get fired up and race the Narrows home to the infamous Gorilla rapid(pictured above) in front of some 500 spectators. It was one of the best Green races to …
Category Archive: Competition Reports
Reports from the competions the Pyranha world team has been competing in.
10
Nov
17
Oct
British Freestyle Championships and Alpkit Series Final
The national watersports centre at Nottingham was the location for the British Freestyle Championships and the Alpkit Series Final. With everyone else on the Team out in Austria for the Sickline event, I was the lone Pyranha team member competing.
02
Oct
Nene Alpkit Challenge II
As Richard has already said, the weekend saw the third of the Plastic Fantastic Alpkit Kayak Series events of the year, at the Nene White Water Centre. Here’s some more from the event…
01
Oct
Alpkit challenge
The 29th and 30th saw the Alpkit Challenge which was held at Northampton white water centre, or the Nene to the ones who know.
10
Sep
Alpkit challenge
This weekend saw the next leg of the alpkit challenge series, it was held on the Tryweryn North Wales. Not going to say much about it, apart from it was a good weekend. Jamie finished second in C1 and i finished 8th in the mens K1. Next event will be held at the Northampton white …
22
Jun
Colorado DAze
Since our last post, we have spent the past month kayaking in Colorado. Big East Falls aka.”Stupid Falls”
29
May
Lofer Extreme Race
With plenty of sunshine – quite untypical for Lofer – and a nice water level, the second Extreme Race in Lofer, Austria took part last weekend. Spontaneously I decided to go there and was quite surprised, when I realized that I was the only girl competing. There was a single race for qualification first, followed …
21
May
Plastic Fantastic Alpkit Kayak Series – River Washburn, UK
After years of the Peak UK Challenge series Pete Astles has decided to take a break. Step up Jim from Alpkit and a slightly changed format and you get the Plastic Fantastic Alpkit Kayak Series. Round 1 was at the River Washburn in the UK and with a Boater X, Alpjam, Freestyle and a Pyranha …
18
May
Reno and Royal Gorge
Parties, power-drives and pioneering. Making the most of our time on the road and glad to be sitting still for a little while.
17
May
TEVA Extreme Mountain Games Val Sesia
Three days of competition not just in kayak, but as well in other sports like mountain running, downhill biking and bouldering and a big party made this years TEVA Extreme Mountain Games to a really entertaining event. Friday morning it started out with a team race on the Egua followed by an individual downriver race. …