I ran some analysis on my archive of river levels tonight, to see if I could get some useful info on how far the river's going to drop before race day.

(This started off as a reply in this thread, but it got a bit long so I've moved it to its own post under my secret identity as the Wandering Weatherman.)

Elders is useless as a forecast model.

IOP announces the dates for the Winter Series!
17th April, 12km
19th June, 16km
10th July, 18km

These start and finish at a microbrewery with awesome pizza (we're not dumb). Salt on the Beach restaurant in Freo - start time of 3pm.

Cost TBC; stay tuned for updates and I hope to see lots of you there!!

-Ski Girl

friend-of-a-friend is looking for a paddler for the rottnest swim. Having done it last year in calm conditions, I think any bozo on a sit-on could do it, but I guess it could get tricky.

There have been quite a number of shark sightings off the Perth coast recently! Last Tuesday I was paddling with a mate when the tiger sharks were spotted - I was 1km offshore so I didn't hear the sirens, and while the Westpac helicopter hovered over him and told him to get off the water, it never saw me.

After having recovered from the Xmas food coma I have now updated the summer series results.

However gremlins on the IOP site prevent me from uploading anything there, so head to www.indianoceanpaddlers.com for instructions on how to get your very own copy of state champs results and the summer series update!

When I first paddled with Ty several years ago I thought that he had a refreshing attitude towards paddling.

Firstly, he was prepared to step up & help me out at short notice as my long term doubles partner had developed a back problem & pulled out. Secondly, he was able to learn & adapt brilliantly. For a crew that had only paddled together a couple of times, we went OK.

Provisional final results are up!http://www.wa.canoe.org.au/default.asp?Page=18055

Please check your results and let me know if there are any mistakes (it's a complicated process doing this so I won't be surprised to find I've mucked something up).

Remember you've only received a final ranking if you either:
Did the first five races (in the same category)
Did 3 or 4 of the first five races PLUS the Doctor (in the same category)

-SG

If you like gadgets, then you'd have a GPS unit by now. Very useful, real-time for monitoring speed, heart rate, elapsed times in training or racing.

Pretty good back home to analyse your session/race with graphing out functions.

In Garmin land there is the obvious bundled Training Center for windows. The maps are crap and must be updated with commercial maps (mapsource?) or borrow a hacked version off a friend. This may have changed, though, since it is a couple of years since I had access to a windows computer.

You can go to Motionbased
http://www.motionbased.com/

For those of you new to ski paddling, or who struggle with getting back in your ski after you have been hurled unceremoniously into the drink, check out this link from surfski.info on remount techniques:
http://www.surfski.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=421&It...

Now that it's warm, there is no excuse not to practice remounts after every paddle session. Once you sort it out in flat water, head for the chop.

Multiple World Champ Dean Gardiner makes his training group do three remounts at the end of each session . . . .