Demonstration Day - Friday 28th June

Very quiet day today with just one training session at 11am. Weather is still calm and settled and not too hot - a few spots of rain this afternoon which didn't deter some of the team heading out for a bike ride on the hotel bikes.

The river was at race flow, reasonably low. compared to some of the days we have had. Kids worked on technique mostly with some doing a quieter flat water paddle.  Up to the hotel for a 1pm lunch, homemade toasted doorstop sandwiches, fried potato cheese and bacon hash and some delicious local marmalade filled light as air bun things. Fruit and raisins and nuts and muesli bars filled everyone up.

Kids all disappeared up to their rooms to watch the live world cup races from Augsburg and write postcards home.

expect a postcard from Jess

Late afternoon top up of snacks before heading down to see the course set up and watch the demo runs. Everyone thought the course was pretty good although the three upstreams in a row was a bit unusual. The girls are pretty happy with the flow being slightly less pushy than some of the bigger days.













 Kids looked fabulous in their uniforms down on the course and Martin and Dale attended the team managers meeting to get the provisional start list and general information about the race. We are not sure if there will be a live results feed or not - you should try the web cam and if we find any information we will email you all. First race begins at 10am our time (8pm your time) with c1 men followed by c2 and then K1. A very high standard of judging is expected tomorrow with most of the gates having live video camera feed going back to the chief judges office for review. This race is the selection race for the Slovenian Junior and U23 teams for the world champs. Everyone in our team will be finished both runs by 2pm our time (midnight for you) Race numbers are down a little due to the wide spread flooding throughout Europe which meant that many national organisations had to rejig their calenders and this weekend sees a clash with other races. Some of the countries we are racing against include Slovenia, Italy, Slovakia, USA, Kazakhstan, Czech ......

Chicken and vegetable risotto for tea with salad, a team meeting and kids away up to their rooms for hopefully a good sleep, although the live music from the restaurant in the hotel was threatening earlier to be a bit noisy.  All the kids seem to be taking this race seriously and are well organised and prepared for what tomorrow will bring.