Liffey Descent 2008
Saturday was the annual pilgrimage to Dublin to take part in the Liffey Descent canoe marathon. This year we entered three teams, Jake and Lyle made their usual effort, Steve and Tommy were once again teamed up and team Scuba, or PC and my team, had the addition of Andy L slotting into midship. Team Scuba also had a bit of a shake up with PC taking the more demanding stern position and me taking the more risky bow. The amendments to team Scuba didn’t translate quite into the performance booster we had hoped, with 5 swims our total time was pushed up to 4 hours… It wasn’t our best performance, but it was enough to earn us 8th place in our class (Canadian threes, out of 21 boats).
Tommy and Steve finished 24th and Lyle and Jake came in 8th in the canadian twos class.
The cycling squad was made up of Paula, Cherith, Emma and Ruth this year, taking a shorter route, but providing some good photo coverage of the river action:
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| Liffey 2008 |
