By Matt
UCD returned from Cork in a triumphant 6th place in the 2011 Kayak Intervarsities, hosted by UCC & CIT. The guys from Cork hosted a great event this year, and the skills were all on show from 12 colleges from around the country.
By Matt
Getting ready for the Varsities next weekend, UCD’s whitewater team – myself, Karen and Nuala – headed out to the Wild Water Kayak Club clubhouse on the Liffey this morning for a bit of sprint training.
Waggers from DCU had offered to give us a bit of coaching in flat-water racing, so we brought some Golas and some Dancers and hit the river. The Liffey was honking at around 4 megs. Palmerstown weir was looking nice and big, but had a massive tree jammed on the left-hand side of it. We thought we’d stick to the flat for today anyway! Continue reading
By Matt
I was really looking forward to this post – it being the first post on a Saturday trip on the blog. I was looking forward to talking about the epic day we were gonna have down in Wicklow, and putting up some slick photos of some crazy freshers running the stout!
Sadly, though, it wasn’t to be. Due to forces beyond our control, the bus never showed up in UCD, so we had no transport to the river (“oh, you wanted a bus for Saturday!? I thought you said Sunday!!”…..). Disaster! But then, someone came up with the great idea to suit up and head for the mighty River Dodder – just down the road from the boathouse (I can’t remember whose idea it was, so I’ll just take the credit for it). Continue reading
Hey guys and welcome to the brand spanking new UCDCC blog!! This, alongside the club forum and the Facebook page, is where you can see all that’s going on in the club.
The plan for this blog is to aim to post up a little piece every week after the Saturday trip, with photos and maybe some videos from the day. Same again for our weekends away – Freshers Weekend, Lahinch, Varsities, Easkey – we’ll post up a wee bit on it.
As well as the regular goings on in the club, we’d love other people to contribute to the blog too. If any UCDCC members – current or past – are planning an epic trip away, or have just got back from one, we’d love it if you’d pass something onto us to stick up on the blog… With loadsa pictures too!
As well as any posts on trips, if anyone would like to post up about random stuff going on in the club, in the college or in the wider paddling community, we’d love to hear from you.
Anybody that wants to contribute, can you e-mail your post to ucdcanoeclub@gmail.com, with “Blog post” in the e-mail subject, and attach any photos you want too. The committee can then have a look over it, and pop it up on the page. Anybody who contributes will obviously get full credit for the stuff that gets put up.
Cheers folks, and hope to hear from ye soon!
Matt
Photo by Eoin O'Raghallaigh
