Aaron Osborne

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On the way home from the last couple of World Championships I have tried to stop off in a couple of new places. This time it was Munich and Salzburgs turn! Salzburg is a pretty sweet town and we only had enough time to have  stroll through town and up to their castle on the top of the hill. In Munich we had a few more days so we were able to venture around the place and take our time. We checked out a lot of sights to see in Munich which included the cool English Gardens, BMW Museum, Rathaus,  [ Read More ]

It has been a while since I have updated my website and a lot has been going on. The 2011 Canoe Slalom Worlds came to completion with a couple of new World Champions and a couple retaining their titles. Peter K won Mens with Corina K winning the woman’s. We also had the teams race which was on the finals course. It was a pretty cool course that had a few technical moves and a up right in the bottom drop. The up right is pretty tricky at the best of times and when you cant see the person at  [ Read More ]

Well yesterdays racing didn’t go to plan. I finished 44th and 0.3s off the semi final. My first run was pretty crap with two touches and a huge mistake after hitting the bottom. This left it all up to my second run to pull out a good run. My top and bottom sections were pretty good and well on pace however another bad sequence through gates 14-16 cost me too much time resulting in a disappointing performance and result. There are still semi finals and finals for all classes, our C1 Mens heats and the teams race on Sunday afternoon.  [ Read More ]

Today was a pretty windy one!! So windy that racing has been cancelled and all results have been made scrapped even though everyone raced first runs. Race organisers declared the conditions to be unfair and racing will start again tomorrow.  For me this means another day on the river bank as they are changing the programme and making a decision in the morning if racing will even start tomorrow. So K1 Womans and C2 Mens might race tomorrow or might not. No K1 Mens or C1 Mens will start tomorrow so another day chilling out…. The girls did race first  [ Read More ]

We have only one more session to go before the 2011 Canoe Slalom World Championships start!! Things have been going pretty well for me throughout the final stages of my preparation with everything starting to gel. We have the opening ceremony which is held in town at the Eurovea Centre. It starts on Tuesday evening and the Womans K1 and Mens C2 start the event with their heats on Wednesday.  I race on Thursday around 1030am (830pm NZ time) with the C1 Men following in the afternoon. The course has been getting a facelift with new scoreboards, seating, signs, more  [ Read More ]