World Raft Championships: The Build Up

We have just completed our final day of training before the competition starts. We spent the day running the main gorge section of the Pacuare that the endurance will be held on, perfecting our lines and trying alternatives. Around 30 teams from all over the world were on the river, and the atmosphere was fantastic. We also discovered that spending some time speaking to the safety kayakers )a team of at least 20 strong, positioned at key points along the gorge) was most definately worth it to find out which teams were taking the fastest lines, where the most flips and swims were happening, and getting some local knowledge of how the lines would change with different water levels. I think we spent around 7 hours on the river today!

Tomorrow is the opening cermony for the competition and a rest day. The afternoon will be spent with our fantastic osteopath who arrived on site today and has scheduled in a couple of hours of treament or us all just in time to balance us all our before the competition starts.

Rosie Cripps (6th October)