Ruamahanga Marathon Relay

What an awesome day in the Wairarapa............. great weather and the river flowing at 95 cumecs.............so there were some really quick times by everyone in the field.
The wind didn't come into play too much and 22 degrees was on the button temperature wise, it was surely great to get some sun on the back today.

I think today is the biggest feild of Female Kayakers we've had at a kayak event in our region in a long time......................Go the Girls!!!!.................keep up the good work out on the water.

Big thanks to Debbie and Eric Barber for all there stirling work with the split times and printed results and the use of the Wairarapa Multisports Clubs timing equipment, computer and mobile printer. They all made our job so much easier.

I'm still piecing together an article.............o.k. an Essay on the event.................so will be sending that and some photos to Sportzhub tomorrow night..............so it should be on there on Monday or Tuesday.

I was picking that we'd get around 10 teams and 6 individuals along today but was surprised to see 10 individuals and 6 teams..................this is a reversal of past trends for this event.................the shorter Marathon distance is an option that we'd hoped would appeal, and we still see much potential in growing the teams event as well, it's a great opportunity to get people into kayaking and it's great to be in a team with your mates.

Thanks to all for supporting this years event, whether you were out on the water doing the hard yards or supporting your partners.

Also to big thank you to Bryan Tucker for access through his property to Morisons Bush and also to Ed Handyside for access through his property at Tuhitarata

Glenn Muirhead gave us his GPS distances from yesterday he stayed mainly on the outside of the river, in the faster flows and cut just two corners for these readings below.

We enjoyed putting this event on for you.

Chester, Sharlene, Debbie and Eric.

An article should appear on http://www.sportzhub.com/ in the next day or so.

Individuals:
---------------------11km - 16km - 17 km = 44 km

Glenn Muirhead -- 40:37 - 52:45 - 1:04:45 = 2:38:07

James Coubrough - 42:14 - 55:15 - 1:07:45 = 2:45:14

Dean Ford --------- 42:10 - 55:17 - 1:10:44 = 2:48:11

Dave Rudge---------45:01 - 56:51 - 1:11:29 = 2:53:21

Hamish Groves-----45:44 - 56:59 - 1:13:25 = 2:56:08

Menno van der Laan - 46:57 - 58:44 - 1:13:52= 2:59:33

Martin Leighton -----46:33 - 1:00:02 - 1:13:32 = 3:02:44

Brian Astridge -------49:01 - 1:04:12 - 1:20:42 = 3:13:55

Martin Crundwell----49:32 - 1:06:16 - 1:22:04 = 3:17:52

Ben Candy-----------42:20 - 1:06:45 - DNS

Teams 2 and 3 person

John Allen 45:59 Eric Barber 57:19 Doug Aplin 1:09:24 = 2:52:42

Sandy Winterton 45:34 Sandy Winterton 56:15 Pete Notman 1:14:58 = 2:56:47

Katherine Allen 47:23 Katherine Allen 1:01:29 Ben Sutherland 1:13:23 =3:02:15

A.J. Millward 50:53 A.J. Millward 1:05:04 Annabelle Ramsey 1:18:57 = 3:14:54

Leigh Finlayson 50:56 Jazz Stevens 1:04:47 Leigh Finlayson 1:27:22 =3:23:05

Terry Blackburn 45:57 Brian Sanders 57:46 Lance Hayes DNS