Hi all

With the downwind season coming to a close and people start thinking about flatwater races, also with this new sprint race format coming up in SA soon, I was wondering what is a good speed/time for an all out sprint?

Say over 200metres, are we really aiming for speeds of plus 10km/hr to be competitive?

Just interested to know how fast guy's are pumping through the short distances of 200m and 500m?

Cheers

Sub 1 minute is very good for 200m, Peter Pridmore won the Black Blade in ~1:54 min from memory. It's a great format as it opens up the racing for a new group of paddlers. Suits the surfers as they do a lot of sprint work every wave session.

gregc said...
I think Connor wrote something a little while ago saying he was doing something around 50sec for 200 metres.

Whoops my bad on the typo. Peter Pridmore did 54secs.

gregc said...
Personally, because I have the worlds shortest attention span, I love the idea of sprint racing. Apparently it is huge in the States but doesn't seem to have taken off over here. I reckon, so far, we are yet to fully explore the various racing disciplines.

It's now and it's here :
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Stand-Up-Paddle/SUP/2014-AuSUP-Aust-Flatwater-SUPfest-28-30-March/

I looked up results from last years Black Blade 200m (my memory failed me on Pete's time sorry - still very quick!)

A Final - 14'

1 Jackson Shaw 7 1:03.92
2 Greg Kerr 5 1:00.94
3 Ben Tardrew 4 1:00.80
4 Peter Pridmore 1 55.79
5 Roger Goodwin 2 57.21
6 Marcus Tardrew 3 58.26
7 Andrew Cropley 6 1:01.46
8 Peter Baldwin 8 1:04.78

Yep, 14' stock class. Light tail wind conditions.