{"id":5765,"date":"2025-05-26T20:09:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T19:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/?p=5765"},"modified":"2025-05-26T20:09:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T19:09:51","slug":"this-week-sprint-competition-the-big-paddle-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/2025\/05\/26\/this-week-sprint-competition-the-big-paddle-cleanup\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week: Sprint Competition &amp; The Big Paddle Cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tuesday 27th &#8211; Sprint competition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomorrow is our club sprint competition and we have specialist and general purpose boat categories for adult, secondary&nbsp;school age and primary school age in both male and female &#8211; everybody can give it a go!. We have FIVE very stable junior racing boats suitable for even our most recent canoeists so bring your young children to give it a go at 6pm on Tuesday 27th. Races are only 200 metres (and possibly 500m) so everything can be seen from the clubhouse area.<br><br>Entry is FREE to all club members and you will gain points towards being the overall CLUB CHAMPION in your age\/gender group.<br><br>Sprint medals are also up for grabs!<br><br>This is event one&nbsp;of our three-event club championship! The other parts are marathon (23rd Sept tbc) and&nbsp;slalom&nbsp;on (19th June tbc). Points are awarded in the various age groups&nbsp;and the people in each age group with the most points at the end of the series are our club champions 2025!<br><br><em>If you are booked on for SUP tomorrow, that&nbsp;is still on, but you can have a go at the sprint on your SUP if you want!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thursday 29th &#8211; The Big Paddle Cleanup 2025<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Big Paddle Cleanup is two&nbsp;weeks of action to continue the mission to improve our precious blue places, and GSCC are going to join in by cleaning up our river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will be doing one&nbsp;session this year:<br><br>Thursday 29th May&nbsp;&#8211; 18:30<br><br>Open to all ages as long as they fit a buoyancy aid. Parents are welcome to join in, we just need you to sign&nbsp;in if they are not members.<br><br>We have all the equipment, we just need your help to be part of this national event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday 27th &#8211; Sprint competition Tomorrow is our club sprint competition and we have specialist and general purpose boat categories for adult, secondary&nbsp;school age and primary school age in both male and female &#8211; everybody<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sprint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5766,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions\/5766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}