Britain’s Great Canoe Race Nears
10 Mar
The most storied canoe race in Great Britain — the Devizes to Westminster
International Canoe Race — is less than a month away, and already the build-up is beginning in the local media.
The Telegraph has THIS story about a pair of citizen racers looking to complete the 125-mile event scheduled to begin on April 10.
The event, begun in 1948, begins in Devizes, in Wiltshire, and paddles along the Kennet and Avon canal for 54 miles to Reading, before joining the Thames. The race finishes at the Westminster Bridge in London.
In the most challenging division of the race, racers paddle the route non-stop. The course-record for the non-stop event is 15 hours and 34 minutes, set in 1979.
