On the weekend we had the New Zealand Canoe Slalom National Championships. On the Saturday was the Pre-Nationals. The course for this event was quite short and straightforward. I was feeling really good and relaxed on the Saturday, I rocked up checked out the course and then busted out two clean runs of 84sec. Luuka Jones brought her form and put down an 81+2 in her first run to take the win, placing me in 2nd and Nikki W in 3rd.
On the Sunday it was Nationals Day, and for me I was not feeling as good going into the race. I blew out completely in my first run going low in all the upstreams and with a brutally slow time of 105sec clean. My second run I tried to step up my tac-tiks and bust it out, well I was high in the upstream gates I lost speed in my weak strokes and had a costly error when trying to cut my line near the bottom of the course. This resulted in a 103sec clean run, which fortunately was enough to secure me a silver medal, but not enough to satisfy myself. Luuka claimed a comfortable win with 6seconds up.
Mike Dawson won the Mens race both days and Ben Gibb won the C1Mens both days also For more results checkout: www.slalomnz.org.nz
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