This was the toughest day of the event for the men with both Quarterfinals and Semi finals in the same day.
It was tough to make top 10, the cut was about 1800 for 2 rides, which is much higher than Worlds was 1 year ago…but for the top 5 it was even harder. We have pretty much all the same competitors as in Worlds but now Dane and Quim are seniors too. Also Tomas Andrassy from Slovakia, Bartosz and Tomasz from Poland have all became a very strong competitors and are paddling on a top level too.
There are now more than 5 paddlers capable of pulling off an over 1000points ride here.
The hardest thing for me is balancing between scoring a good ride but not pushing too hard on my broken bone 
I came in 8th in the morning, feeling very pleased to make the semi finals. Peter just stole the top spot from Dane again closely followed by Quim.
In the Semi finals we all knew it was going to be a ride of over a 1000 needed at least to make Finals. This time Dane had one of the sickest rides I’ve ever seen (1350) to get 1st ahead of Peter who was 2nd, Quim 3rd, Stephen 4th and myself 5th with 1066points!!!
European contingent is looking strong, with 3 paddlers making the finals. Now its one day off to recover and rest before its time to really throw down properly on Saturday 
Results: - http://www.freestylekayaking2013.com/pdfs/results/MensSemiFinalsResultsPigeon.pdf
In the Junior Men’s, Bren had rides in prelims that would have put him 3rd in the Men’s and almost two times ahead of the other Juniors… he looked on fire, getting two trophy moves in his ride even.
Today he was up again in the Semi’s and as expected easily won with 1053 in one ride with USA’s Hunter Katich going very big to get 700points and 2nd place. Also making the finals was GBR’s Brandon Hepburn in 4th place.
Results: - http://www.freestylekayaking2013.com/pdfs/results/JuniorMensK1semiResultsPigeon.pdf
In the Women’s Prelims Katya did very good making the cut for the Semi finals. Claire O’Hara from GBR got 1st in the prelims followed by Ruth Gordon, Nina Csonkova and Emily Jackson.
Results:- http://www.freestylekayaking2013.com/pdfs/results/WomensK1prelimResultsPigeon.pdf
Semi Finals was today and Claire O’hara was looking strong, taking the 1st place again! Katya did very good rides with Entry moves, Phonics and a Loops, everyone was pretty sure she would make the cut but judges thought differently so she ended up 7th missing the cut by 30 points.
Results: - http://www.freestylekayaking2013.com/pdfs/results/WomensK1SemiResultsPigeon.pdf
We’re both happy with how we did today and ready for a rest day tomorrow, as it’s no water releasing. It’s such a good feature here, one of the best holes we’ve ever paddled, finals should be very interesting. I’m really hoping to recover a bit and be able to show my best.
Finals TV will be streamed live from:- http://www.ustream.tv/channel/h2o
Pringle
Straight after the Rock Island we were straightaway on the road for 3 hours to Pigeon river, the site of the 2nd event in this years World Cup.
The hole, built by hand is actually one of the best features I’ve paddled in.
Wit only one day before the event started there wasn’t supposed to be any water, but a surprise afternoon release meant that we were able to practice. I managed 1 ride, liked the hole, it seemed very straightforward so got off so I didn’t strain my collarbone too much.
Yesterday was the first day of competition here, with the Men’s Prelims. With such an easy feature rides were always going to be high.
Notably Dane Jackson scored a 1340 in his first ride and a 1000+ in his 2nd, looking likely that he’d be hard to beat, but then Peter Csonka winner of the first World Cup stepped up once again with a 1430 first ride and a 1158 second ride.
I was in one of the last heats to go and feeling better and better everyday really wanted to get good rides. I can’t push or pull very hard off my right side so just tried to keep smooth and easy so not to need much effort. I had a great first ride and similar second ride getting most of what I was aiming for.
Really really happy to feel a bit more myself and very pleased with how the new Dagger Jitsu play boat is performing for me.
In the end of the day I ended up 4th, Quim from Catalonia 3rd, Dane 2nd and Peter 1st. So another great showing from the Europeans with most of us getting through to the cut of top 20.
Looks set for an interesting battle over the coming days; I hope I can step up to battle with Dane, Quim and Peter…
Men’s Prelims Results below: -
Rank Name Country Run 1 Run 2 Final Score
1 Peter Csonka #161 SVK 1430 1158 2588
2 Dane Jackson #172 USA 1340 1136 2476
3 Joaquim Fontane #194 ESP 1006 936 1942
4 James Bebbington #74 GBR 940 870 1810
5 Nick Troutman #45 CAN 776 983 1759
6 Tomasz Czaplicki #191 POL 1023 653 1676
7 Martin Koll #7 DEU 803 870 1673
8 Bartosz Czauderna #190 POL 846 720 1566
9 Stephan Wright #157 USA 846 708 1554
10 Tomas Andrassy #167 SVK 790 686 1476
11 Michael Patterson #160 USA 703 713 1416
12 Clay Wright #169 USA 525 866 1391
13 Bryan Kirk #63 USA 560 686 1246
14 Abel Thevenet #2 FRA 766 451 1217
15 Eric Jackson #80 USA 670 536 1206
16 David Wild #189 GBR 640 560 1200
17 Kazuya Matsungaga #94 JPN 501 598 1099
18 Adam Chappell #193 CAN 363 716 1079
19 Marcel Bloder #33 AUT 505 526 1031
20 Craig Kleckner #187 USA 580 430 1010
21 Matt Anger #105 USA 521 486 1007
22 Thim Bernard #91 FRA 426 506 932
23 Thomas Dunphy #8 IRL 351 376 727
24 Andrey Pesterev #14 RUS 390 316 706
Women and Junior Men prelims are on today so will have more soon from the Pigeon
Pringle
Was macht ein Kanulehrer im Urlaub? Richtig Er geht paddeln. Soweit so klar. Allerdings habe ich im Urlaub immer ganz stark das Bedürfnis möglichst alleine, in ungewohnter Umgebung und vor allem ziemlich ziellos ” herumzustromern”.
Das war auch in der vergangen Woche der Plan. Das Ziel war die Gegend um Lysekil in den west-schwedischen Schären auf halbem Weg zwischen Göteborg und Oslo. Mit an Bord waren neben der Familie zwei Seekayaks von Current Designs, ein aufblasbares SUP von Starboard und mein Palm Equipment.
Da die ausgedehnten Brunchaktivitäten wirkungsvoll etwaig aufkeimenden Aktionismus verhinderten blieben gemütliche Zeitfenster von 2 bis 3 Stunden pro Tag für den Wassersport. Genau richtig!
Als überzeugter Stechpaddler bin ich vor ein paar Jahren zusätzlich dem Seekayakbazillus verfallen und seit zwei Jahren definitiv auch dem Paddeln im Stehen. Was dazu führte, dass die Paddelausrüstung massiv anwuchs und, das war der entscheidende Aspekt, ich das Gefühl bekam, ein kompletter und auch in vielen Dingen offenerer Paddler geworden zu sein. Der Blick über die Disziplingrenzen hat mir gut getan. Verschiedene Pfeile im Köcher zu haben, führen zu einer unglaublichen Freiheit an Wahlmöglichkeiten. Je nach Stimmung, Umfeld oder Paddelpartner wählt man das passende Gerät.
Hier in den Schären hatte ich die Wahl zwischen Stehen und Sitzen. Das spannende dabei ist, das der Wechsel von kurz über der Wasseroberfläche zu knapp zwei Meter weiter oben einen unglaublichen Unterschied macht. Zumal die Geschwindigkeit auch eine komplett andere ist. Im Kayak ist man mehr auf Strecke ausgerichtet, orientiert sich an ferneren Zielen, peilt Landmarken an. Auf dem Board regiert die Langsamkeit, der Blick fällt viel eher auf die kleinen Dinge am Wegesrand, der Aktionsradius ist kleiner aber nicht weniger interessant. Es ist ein wirklicher Perspektivwechsel.
Ganz besonders spannend fand ich den Unterschied beim Blick ins Wasser. Vom Board aus ergeben sich viel tiefere Einblicke. In Lysekil wurden die wenigen Quallen im Sitzen zu ganzen Armeen im Stehen – da hat es manchmal auch Vorteile, wenn man nicht alles sieht
In Schweden ist übrigens das SUPen noch nicht wirklich so weit verbreitet. Man erregt doch ziemliche Aufmerksamkeit als Stehpaddler. Dabei bietet sich doch gerade das Land der vielen Seen als echtes Paddelparadies an. Vermutlich wird das noch. Bis dahin regieren vor allem an den Küsten und in den Fjorden die Seekayaker. By the way …. auf der Anreise hat mir ein Kollege in Copenhagen berichtet, dass das SUPen auf den Kanälen der Stadt verboten sei. Tsts…
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Von unserem Ferienhaus in Såmstad aus bin ich vor allem zu Touren im Fjord unterwegs gewesen. Als bekennender Schiffsfan und Küstenliebhaber am liebsten immer in Sichtweite zum Ufer und mit einem Schlenker in jeden noch so kleinen Hafen. Das ist übrigens auch eine ziemlich coole Aktion mit dem Board. Man sieht unglaublich viel mehr als wie von der Wasserlinie aus und Es erschrickt doch immer mal wieder ein Skipper, wenn plötzlich einer vor dem Fenster steht … haha.
Für uns Süddeutsche ist das Revier zwar nicht wirklich ums Eck, aber dennoch auch für einen kürzeren Aufenthalt sehr zu empfehlen. Ach ja. … Seafood gibt’s in rauhen Mengen und fangfrisch!
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I had half a day to kill after a long journey and needed a bit of a chill and a shake out paddle. I remembered an interesting little paddle, quite local to where I was that I had done a year or so previously. That trip is the much overlooked Rivers Glass and Beauly.
Both these rivers really are little gems and very often ignored due to their low grade, with the River Beauly having the stunning steep sided Aigas Gorge which is quite unusual at this grade of water, and is home to some regularly seen Otters. Only the River Conon has a larger catchment area than the 270 square miles of the Beauly system. The Rivers lie to the south west of Dingwall in Strathglass and to the North of the Great Glenn and is easily be accessed via the A831 through the Muir of Ord and Beauly.
This system finds its origins in Glen Affric with the River Affric which then becomes the River Glass above Cannich. Here there is a good access and egress, from where this stretch can then be paddled to the road bridge at Mauld which crosses the river just before the River Farrar and Struy Bridge. Again there is good access and egress and the river now becomes the Beauly and is a nice trip down through the Aigas Gorge to the get out at the Aigas Dam.
The put in at Struy Bridge
Looking downstream of the bridge
As I only had half a day I opted on this occasion to put on at Struy bridge and paddle the section to the Aigas Dam. I made a point of stopping at the the dam and inspecting the get out as I drove to the put in, and left my bike for a quick shuttle at the end of the day. After the usual faff associated with open boating I launched from the field beside the bridge and paddled down the Farrar to where it met the Beauly.
The Beauly
The weather was rather interesting as to my front were great black, bellowing storm clouds and very loud rumbles of thunder could be heard, whilst over my shoulder was blue sky and sunshine. This was to the be the case for the remainder of the day along with the the occasional heavy downpour. Although I could see and hear the thunder and lightning I never really caught up with it and ended up feeling like I was chasing it all day!
Beckoning storm clouds to my front!
Clearer sky's to my rear
Part way down I decided to stop for some lunch and a brew with the aid of my Kelly Kettle. I always carry a fire steel steel with me for lighting fires, stoves etc so all I had to do now was find some tinder and some fuel. Luck would have it that very close to where I had stopped I found an old Birch tree. On closer inspection I found that its bark was in just the state for lighting my kettle. I chose some of the very flakey, loose paper thin bark as tinder for my spark, and some of the thicker more substantial bark to add to this to get it going, along with a collection of small dry twigs. I generally carry a small leather pouch with some dry bark and other dry tinders just in case I cant find what I need. I like to use Birch bark for tinder as it contains natural oils which help it to burn, even when wet plus it burns hot and for quite sometime ensuring the fire gets a good start.
Thin and fury looking bark for tinder
Thicker bark for getting the fire going
Preparation is everything when lighting fire or in this case my kettle. I prepared a pile of tinder in the form of the very thin bark, a few strips of the thicker bark and broke the twigs up into piles of thin to thick. Kelly Kettle filled with water and ready I drop a few sparks onto the very thin bark and gain a flame quickly. Now I add some of the thicker strips of bark and once they have caught’ place the kettle over the fire base. This acts like a chimney and draws the fire. I can now carefully add the sticks trough the hole in the top starting with the thinnest first and gradually building up. Be careful not to overdo it and smother the the young flames.
A good selection of tinder and fuel
I always carry a good knife and a firesteel
Now is a good time to give the fire lots of oxygen via the holes in the base of the kettle, by blowing or fanning. Once your kettle is going drip feed the thicker sticks until the water is boiled. Remember not leave the cork in, and be careful lifting the kettle off the base as the flames may still be coming out of the top where the handle goes. With practice, lighting and using a Kelly Kettle can become second nature and can be as quick as using a stove but definitely more satisfying and fun.
The base with a dead fire
I soon arrived at Aigas Island and the start of the Gorge, which as I mentioned earlier is a bit of a surprise. Its hard to get your head round, but you are now actually paddling through part of reservoir! Very steep rocky sides tower above the paddler as you paddle through. The Island itself can be paddle on either side although I feel the left is much more interesting.
Approaching Aigas Island
Steep sides of the gorge
Leaving the gorge
On leaving the gorge and paddling around to the right a very big and grand property is clearly visible above, on the Island. This is Eilean Aigas House, previously a seat for Lord Fraser of Lovat. The original family home was demolished by a Canadian Millionaire and has been replaced by this stunning building, in this stunning location. Incidentally if you happen to have a spare £15,000,000 plus just lying around doing nothing you could put in an offer on the property as its up for sale!!
For sale. Offers in excess £15,000,000 !!
Back to reality and it’s only a distance of 2 km to the Aigas Dam and the get out. The egress is short distance before the dam itself and is a bit of scramble up the bank with your boat and kit, before finding the tarmac track up to the main road.
Approaching the Aigas Dam
After a quick portage up to the road it was time to head off back to the car courtesy of the local shuttle service … aka my bike. The short cycle back gave me time to reflect on my day of storm chasing, Kelly kettles and gorges. I finished in a very chilled and relaxed state ready for some more challenging paddling later in the week.
Portage up to the road
The local shuttle service .... aka my bike!
This section I paddled is only 10-12 km long but as mentioned earlier a longer paddle of 25 km can be had by launching further upstream at Cannich. I have on one occasion portaged 2 km down the road from Aigas Dam and launched again by the Kilmorack bridge and paddled a further 4 km down to Lovat Bridge. It really is a lovely paddle with no nasty surprises. Wether a days relaxed paddling, a family trip or an introductory paddle for people its well worth the visit.
Happy paddling and see you on the water…..
Jules
www.voyageur-coaching.co.uk
So the first event of the 2012 World Cup has just finished here in the USA.
The feature in Rock Island was very very tough and no one had much time on the water to practice, which meant quite a lot of surprises from the favourites and some unexpected successes for others.
From the beginning this World Cup it was going to be a battle between the Europeans and the North Americans. For this play spot in Rock Island the Jackson group were definitely favourites with this being their home spot.
They were very consistent in practice, you can see that they know this feature better than anyone else even this level is very unusual for them.
For myself it’s only been 3 weeks since I broke my Collarbone so my biggest hope was that I could compete at all, I knew I probably wasn’t likely to be at the top but I did manage to get a few moves and was very happy to make it to Quarter Finals and finish 17th.
Everything was going smoothly for the North Americans until today when things didn’t go to their plan. In the men’s Semi Finals, Nick Troutman just missed the cut for top 5 after winning the previous two rounds. Then European Junior Girls took the first two places in their final with Nuria from Spain winning.
In Women’s the unpredictable nature of the feature claimed Claire O’Hara current World Champion and Ruth Gordon Ebens former World Champion as casualties in the semis so it was only Nina Csonkova left from the European team in the Final. She got 2nd having pretty consistent rides but no one could really compete with Emily Jackson here who had impressive rides every time to take the Win.
Watching the men’s finals was a real pleasure with the Europeans really getting behind Quim and Peter. For quite a while Quim from Spain was leading with a score over 600 but Dane and EJ was going very hard, with Dane finally taking the lead from Quim with 750points. It looked like this result would stick until Peters last ride when he put himself together and really showed his skill and control to get a 900+point ride.
The sudden change in the European crowds mood was lifted to the sky as we almost lost hope of a win here until Peter last ride. Dane was last to go and had looked on fire here, he knew Peters score and must have felt under pressure. He flushed early in his last ride, this feature isn’t quite retainable, the paddle back up takes 20 seconds so he didn’t have time to really recover when he got back in the hole.
This meant of course that here on the Jackson’s home spot the European teams hero of the moment Peter Csonka took the win with Dane 2nd and Quim 3rd. Gold and Bronze goes to Europe, for us it doesn’t really matter who wins this World Cup, it matters where he’s from. I really want the Europeans to continue to show what we’re capable of here. Hopefully I will be in shape for the last event in 2 weeks time.
For now Congratulations to Peter! We all felt like we’d shared a part of this victory, it was very well deserved.
The Pigeon river World Cup starts in two days, probably without any practice but is much more retentive and consistent apparently, it might all be a different story.
Pringle
Great result on the Oban Sea Kayak Race – After much sweating, swearing and surfing the waves, I managed to come in seventh overall in the race with my trusty Wilderness Systems Tempest 180 pro kayak, and the first recreational \ touring kayak with a time of 2.14-09 for the trip round Kerrera.
Pretty pleased with the results and with beating all the other leading brand fast touring boats, a number or facing boats and a K2. I did manage to get past finisher no 6 in a wave ski at one point on the outside of the island with the rougher water, but fairs fair, he took me on the home run back into Oban bay. Note – must work harder next year.
Not a bad result this year for Mags Duncan in her plastic tempest 165 in the Ness Marathon either, fastest female, fastest sea kayak, beating all the composite boats and smashing the female course record by 12 minutes. As well as the fastest female in the spey marathon proving the wee sister of the tempest range still has it.
A great race, The tempest fast and stable ? Well it beat a few full on racing boats so I guess it must be, certainly being able to put all the drive into forwards speed in the bouncy water helped. Thanks to WS for making a top boat, and to the organisers for handling a great event.
Good result to Nairn Kayak Clubs Michael Surman too in my loaner plastic tempest 170 with a time of 2-19, beating a large number of composite boats.
Looking forward to next year, hope to see you there.
Or maybe the Dee marathon in October ???????
Steve Mackinnon
After two months, three dangerously overstayed visas and a lost passport, our little adventure has come to an end. Here’s a quick rundown on what we have learned for anyone interested in paddling Pakistan.
Security
Me in 'relaxed-mode"
As a yorkshireman, I was born triple-hard. Those not fortunate enough to have been born in God’s own county will naturally be concerned about personal safety. It would be irresponsible to suggest that Pakistan is ‘as safe as houses’. We did encounter violence during the trip, most of which was the result of petty arguments and climaxed with a grown-up playground-style scuffle. There are also guns in Pakistan; at one point whilst running away from gunfire, Griff commando rolled under barbed wire. True story. The only sensible advice would be to remain positive, friendly and calm; after all, who could ever get angry at Dave Benson-Phillips?
Logistics, accommodation and everything else
In a word, Amin. Amin will mention the name of a guy who is friends with his cousin’s friend’s uncle and the hotel bill will drop a decimal point or two. Amin will personaly deliver matches to your isolated multiday campsite because who wants cold tea? Amin drinks two pints of milk a night to give him ‘stamina’ and having spent time in Europe, Amin understands why we wear such short shorts. Without Amin, we would have paddled less and spent more. And he’s more than just a driver, he’s a great friend.
Incidentally, he’s asked us to shop around for a British wife. Applications on a postcard.
The paddling
Eventually, we’ll write a ‘what we did on our holidays’ style report on the rivers that we enjoyed. Until then, I can promise you that hiding away amongst the monsters are some truly beautiful sections of whitewater.
Here’s a final few photos of our “expedition”. We had a great time and would again like to thank Palm for their help with the equipment and saint-like patience with my idle ramblings. We’re in India now and if you’ll have me, I’ll continue to keep you posted.
With love from Leh,
James
UK – French Alps – Lyon – French Alps – Norway – Uganda – UK – Austrian Alps – French Alps – UK
What a summer! Since May I’ve been travelling around running FlowFree trips, boating with friends, filming for upcoming projects and racing, with a very tight schedule to fit it all in! Last time I updated on here, I’d made it as far as Lyon (that blog post is here and is the reason this is called part 2!). I’m going to take you with me on a whistle stop tour of the highlights from the rest of my epic summer of paddling…
We begin back in the French Alps, around mid-June, when there was awesome river levels which were ideal for the grade 3-4 FlowFree trip – plus a few extra adventures…
Hammer time on the fournel… trying to go tandem with Geraint Anderson had rather mixed results, but was a lot of fun!
One afternoon we decided to go and investigate the top of the Biasse Valley. We looked at the so-called “Teacups” and decided they were a lot of effort for a couple of fairly manky drops, but on hiking up the other trib we found some rather exciting stuff…
Geraint Anderson getting in amongst it
One of my personal highlights from my 2 weeks here was “Guil Day”, where a bunch of us ran from above the Upper Gorge of the Guil, through the Upper Gorge, Chateaux Q, Guardian Angel and into the Middle Guil all in an afternoon. What a blast! This is one of my favourite rivers, especially in good flow.
Staircase at Twilight
Oh and I almost forgot, the annual Student Boater-x… good banter, fun races and a healthy amount of inflatables always make for a good event.
Thanks to everyone who I paddled with in France, it was most excellent. So next stop Norway and Uganda (via a couple of days downhill biking in Morzine and a very special wedding in Geneva)… Epic Summer Part 3 will be with you soon…
If you want to see more photos from the Alps (including more of the Biasse Superslide), check out my Flickr. Dates of 2013 FlowFree trips will be released soon, so if you fancy joining us keep an eye on the website and facebook page, or sign up to our newsletter.
2012 was supposed to be a high water year in Norway so after 2 weeks of hard trade show work I was really looking forward to start my trip to the land of Fjords and Trolls. This year I was guiding a trip for the kajakschool “Source to Sea”.
After an endless drive up north we finally arrived in Sjoa. We had an awesome start of our tour with a sweet run sliding down the Store Ula followed by a long day on the river paddeling Sjoa Ridderspranget to the confluence with the Lagen. Waterlevel was still a little high so we ended up portaging a lot in Ridderspranget but having great times down Asengjuvet, Playrun and Amot.
During the next two weeks Norway showed itself from its best side with a lot of sun and epic whitewater in Sjoa and Otta region. Unfortunately those two weeks of sweet paddeling and nice campfires in the midnight sunset went over way to fast. But even on our way back home passing Oslo the Waterfall Trolls seemed to be well-disposed towards us. Some rain brought up the rivers in the capitol region and made our last paddeling day phenomenal.
During the London 2012 Olympics it’s not just been Slalom going on at the Lee Valley Whitewater centre…
Myself, Claire O’hara, Uganda’s Juma Kalikwani, Japan’s Motoko Ishida, New Zealand’s Courtney Kerin, and USA’s Dane Jackson have all been part of team putting on freestyle kayaking displays between the slalom races.
The aim to show freestyle to as many people as possible, get more kids into it and try to raise the sports profile as a whole (and have a good time doing it).
We were on each day in the break betweens finals and medals, or after the heats, so you might have heard or seen glimpses of us on the BBC footage. Unfortunately, I took myself out of the action with a broken collarbone after the 2nd day, having stacked it skateboarding back to the hotel after our show. Hoping to be back on the water for World Cups.
I was using the new Dagger Jitsu proto as my Guigui was deemed to colourful by the Officials, but the Jitsu even it was plastic was actually a joy to use here at Lee Valley, I’m certainly excited to see how the production one turns out, I think Dagger may well have created something quite special.
Been here at the Olympics has been exciting, fascinating and an overall great experience. We had such a fun time with our team. Watching the incredible performances of GB’s C2 crews, especially Tim and Etienne taking the Gold and Silver yesterday was unforgettable. I’ve never been so gripped by an event.
It didn’t matter what nation was racing when someone was on a winning time everyone began to cheer them on regardless! That is what was so great about the crowds here! and they seemed to love Freestyle!
Getting to see how all the various slalom athletes put themselves together trying to show their best, cheering them on and feeling the electric atmosphere has been amazing. The opening ceremony was like nothing I’ve ever been to, I was very impressed.
In my mind the Olympics is about working hard in pursuit of a goal or dream, trying to show the best of yourself and encouraging/ inspiring others with your actions. I think this is exactly what we saw there after you’ve stripped away all the official BS and commercialism at it’s core it’s still a celebration or humanity and how great the World is!
Anyway, here are some more photos of our time showing off Freestyle Kayaking and keep an eye out for the others this afternoon as they put on the last show.
Pringle
P.S. Thanks to Claire, Sportscene and Terry Best for the additional photos…
