Dunc’s 2019 Great Glen blog
The weekend before last, 21-22 September was the culmination of the 2019 UK SUP endurance series with the big one – the Great Glen Challenge; 92km across Scotland ...
Dunc’s 2019 Norfolk Ultra blog
With huge thanks to Jo Hamilton-Vale – plus of course Ali, Mark, Pete and all of the amazing volunteers – a few of us are still buzzing from two weekends ago at this year's 70km Norfolk Ultra race; part of the UK Paddle Endurance Series (formerly UK SUP). We're very proud to say that SUPsect's three...
Dunc’s 2018 British SUP Club Championships blog
It's been such an amazing year, we've pretty much run out of superlatives to describe what great times we've had – but last weekend really was the icing on the cake that is our 2018 SUP season. Because SUPsect, our super-social paddle club out here in Essex, finished 5th overall in the UK at Saturday's British...
Dunc’s 11 City blog – epilogue
Results are in from the 2018 SUP 11 City Tour – and I'm absolutely delighted to discover that I made 9th place Master in a combined time of just over 25 hours (25:00:46). This is way beyond my wildest dreams for my first attempt racing 220km around North Friesland in Holland: I wasn't sure I could do it,...
Dunc’s 11 City blog – day 5
Mission accomplished! I finished the 2018 SUP 11 City Tour – and today’s 27k time trial turned out to be the hardest paddle of the week, I think the hardest I've ever paddled, into a brutal headwind pretty much all the way back into Leeuwarden. But it really couldn't have gone better for me… The morning started a...
Dunc’s 11 City blog – day 4
After yesterday's brutal headwinds, we were blessed with a tailwind for almost the whole of today's 43.3km stage from Franeker to Dokkum – it made it a super-fast one, basically a 4-hour downwinder, plus I went probably as hard as I've ever paddled to get what I think was another top 10 finish in a strong...
Dunc’s 11 City blog – day 3
Today was pretty brutal – first a 12k time trial, then a 30k non-stop: 20k into cross-headwind including some of the windiest stretches I've ever raced, then 10k downwind from Harlingen to Franeker, where I'm currently in the van in the pouring rain. But has to be said I'm still totally buzzing from today's racing...
Dunc’s 11 City blog – day 2
Here we are in another cute Dutch town, Workum, at the end of day two of the 2018 SUP 11 City Tour – the longest stage of the week at 45.5k. My day's gone well, I started off back on plan and racing relatively cautiously but by the second half got pretty competitive to post what I'm pretty...
Dunc’s 11 City blog – day 1
So I'm somewhere called Sloten in Friesland, beautiful place, having survived the first day of the SUP 11 City Tour – which has been amazing so far. Got a decent enough start, maybe pushed a bit hard but was feeling good for the first 38k, then got across the lake a little slower but without incident,...