Archive for April 2009

Division Racing in Denmark

7/4/2009, 15:07

For the last year I’ve been involved in a project under the Danish Canoe Federation on promoting and furthering marathon racing(or would that be canoe marathon in the new ICF lingo?).

What can we do to make it more attractive to participate in races around the country? The obvious answer to that question is another question: What is stopping more paddlers from participating as it is? How about: because it’s such a pain and bother to transport our vessels?

Seriously, there are many different angles to this problem. If you dig long enough the complexity of the problem most likely will make your head explode.

Now instead of solving the problem, we decided to aim somewhat lower and simply make it slightly more fun to race. As a test for 2009 we’re trying to implement a system similar to BCUs divisions.

Two weeks ago I gave a presentation of the project at the federation’s annual general meeting and last sunday at a local 10km race we ran a small trial.

Status and various documents in danish listed in a posting at the federation’s forum.

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