Racing kicked off today with the K1 ladies, C1 and C2 in the morning and the big boys K1 mens racing in the afternoon. Everything was set for a good race, course was not so tricky but lots of places to loose time if you weren’t on line. My first run like last week was solid with ok lines but just not paddling hard. Second run I came out of the blocks hard, hit lots of gates and blew out.  I ended up in 34th, Johan 44, Mike 22, Louise 33, Luuka 17th and Brent 45th. Kauzer demolished the feild 3 sec in front of everyone. Video Here

Full Results and live timing Here.

Event website for the Slovenian Open 2009.

Yesterday was another hot day here in Ljubljana. We are certainly stoked we have air conditioning. We however did venture outside for a couple of training sessions which were rather full of paddlers….

Last night there was the flatwater duel slalom in the middle of town. No Kiwis entered as we had our training session at the time of qualification.  Peter K took home the cash in the mens and Corenna beat Roz in the woman’s.

Event website for the Slovenian Open 2009.

We drove down Monday to Ljubljana, home of Slovenian canoeing. Some of the team had a quick paddle and then we went to town for a family pizza! This morning we did a session of walk backs as there was heaps of people in our session. The river is heaps of fun to paddle on as it has a large drop at the top of the course into a hole at the bottom. Followed by a good section of waves, holes with good eddys.

Last week was the Slovak Open. The sun was out along with a large field of competitors. The race was once again pretty cool with a good course design of a few challenging moves utilizing the whitewater. My first run didnt go to well with a run full of touches and dropping low in the last upstream. Second run I was good until I got suck in a hole then a dodgy head duck to get a 50. However there were a few good things to come out of the race and I have a few things to work and focus on for this week.

Last week we went for a tiki tour around town and saw the Bratislava Castle. Its getting restored at them moment so couldnt go inside or anything, but raises the question of when does restoration become renovation?

Photos from Bratislava and Ljubljana