 | It was a record-breaking performance at Barking - but not in a good way, as the club achieved its lowest turnout at a Winter Series race ever. Stortford's only competitor in this race was Petr, who was glad to have a race on a wide river with no portages so that he could bring his outrigger C1. Temperatures were not as cold as they had been for the previous few days, and the rain gave way to sunshine for the duration of the race. Entries were low all round, giving those who did attend a significant boost to their series total. |
Petr won C1 advanced on the 8 km course with a time of 57:37 - five minutes ahead of Robert Passmore of Tonbridge CC. When these two were head to head at Maidstone the previous week, it was Robert who took gold by a narrow margin.
| The race was won by Chelmsford CC (100 points), with Cambridge CC second (58) and Leighton Buzzard CC third (35). BSCC were joint 8th (10). This leaves Stortford in third position overall at this half-way point through the series. Thanks to Petr (without whom BSCC would have sunk to 6th overall) Stortford is still in third position at this half-way point through the series, so there is still a chance of ending the season in the top three. However, with Cambridge and Leighton Buzzard's races still to come, this is by no means a foregone conclusion. |  |
