Sharks Marathon Team at Elmbridge

Good Luck Paddlers – A New Chapter

The Sharks are entering their first ever ranking marathon on Sunday when Conor Sheehan,

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Grant Underwood

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and James Read race at Elmbridge.

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The Race is a Hasler series Race and counts towards the national ranking system. The Sharks have entered marathons before and have organised several series of mini-marathons.

The Race at Elmbridge is the first of the 2018 series, there will be a break during the Winter and resume again in March 2018, although there are a number of non-ranking marathons over the Winter. Want to come along and paddle or just watch, the location is: Elmbridge Canoe Club, Dorney Gardens Car Park, Walton Lane, KT13 8LU

The Club want to build up a strong marathon racing team, something we have great facilities for as the canal provides the ideal training facilities. Want to know more? Then contact us on 07951 770241, or email canoeing@thesharks.org.uk.

We currently have race training sessions at Southall Activities Centre, in Longboat Row, UB1 2BE on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, these will switch to Saturdays mornings during the Winter months, although we will keep Thursday evenings as club nights when we will do land based training including using our paddling machines.

From next Spring we will host Race training sessions at Havelock (Three Bridges School) on a Tuesday evening and either Saturday or Sunday morning) as well as Sac on Thursdays at Sac, we will also introduce race training at Osterley park on either Saturday or Sunday and on Wednesday evening.

We will also be trying to organise sessions in Hayes in the near future.

Help Shark Racing become a top marathon racing club by joining in. We will provide all the kit, we will teach you to paddle and to race. We will provide you with coaching, so what is stopping you? Come along and join in the fun, whilst getting and keeping fit. Marathon racing is suitable for people of all ages.

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If you are interested in racing at Elmbridge we can still enter you, please contact us if you are interested. Good luck to our paddlers, the start of a new chapter in the Shark Story.