Blenheim Triathlon Photos

A few pictures from Blenheim.

A few pictures from Eton!

Here are a few pictures from the triathlon we Lifeguarded at couple of weeks ago. It was a nice day on the water at Eton rowing lake.

The team.

Start of one of the races.

On the water.

End of the race.

Eton

Tomorrow I am off to the posh Eton Rowing lake with Herst Canoe Lifeguards..

We are Lifeguarding at a traithlon and the swim part of the race is in the rowing lake. It is only a small event but should be good fun and a good warm up for us for the bigger Blenheim Triathlon in a months time.

The DW Canoe Race and Herts Canoe Lifeguards

Yesterday Herts Canoe Lifeguards my volunteer Lifeguard unit at home were down on the River Thames patrolling as part of the water safety team for the Devises to Westminster Canoe race. The last day of racing goes from Ham in West London right along the Thames to the London Eye.

The job of the Canoe Lifeguards is to make sure that everyone who starts the last leg of the race in Ham is accounted for at the finish line in Westminster.

We set off in two patrols. The first group to follow the first wave of races all in K1 Kayaks apart from two stand up paddle boarders! Check out the picture below!

The second patrol set off behind all the K2 and canoe racers. We left home at 2am on Sunday night to get down to Ham and be on the Thames for the very early start with the tide! An early start to a nice paddle I enjoyed. Everything went very well and there were very few people who needed any help or assistance.

An early start in the dark!

Stand Up Paddle boarding the DW! Must be mad!

First Patrol

Rescue Shark

Putney 7 miles to Westminster.

Putney Bridge

The Finish

Patroling the finish.

More photos here.

Check out Herts Canoe Lifeguards website here.

The weekend is over!

Home from the triathlon. A long weekend for all the water safety team, including a 4 o’clock start today. I will update with pictures very soon.

I think I took over 300 photos!

Blenheim Tri.

Blenheim Triahtlon.

Herts Canoe Lifeguards attended the Blenheim Triathlon last weekend and lifeguarded for the 6000+ swimmers taking part in the races.

Reports back say the event went swimmingly! With all the Lifeguards doing very well!

Looking forward to the London Triathlon now.  75 canoe Lifeguard on duty the second weekend in August with 13000+ swimmers!

Convention

This weekend is the BCU Lifeguards Convention.

This year the convention is being run at our base Herts Young Mariners Base.  Many courses are being run for people to progress within Canoe Lifeguards.

I am going to be busy getting ready for my summer Lifeguard Season to Start so am no attending the convention, but I am sure I will recieve reports and pictures!

Hope it goes well!

Pictures

Due to computer problems I have been unable to post the pictuers I have taken recently.

I will try to make up for the lack of pictures over the coming weeks.

Here are a few snaps from the last few weeks!

All the above pictures were taken on the day we filmed our instructional DVD. The DVD is porgressing well. The first video edit has been done and we lookforward to seeing it.

A great weekend

Congratulations to all those who gained an award this weekend.

The Canoe Safety Test, Level 1 Lifeguard Coach Award and the Lifeguard examinations, all went well. Thanks to all those that ran courses, acted as casualties and helped out.

Busy few weekends!

Over the next few weekends Herts Canoe Lifeguards are going to be pritty busy.

We have a DVD to make.  (more to come on that soon!)

Members attending a Level 1 Lifeguard coaching course.

Members taking various specific lifeguard awards.

And there is also the Canoe Lifeguard Convention! More to come on this also!