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You might find this post on Seabreeze helpful - "Kawana Lake Time Trials March 14" -posted by Swanie on 14/3/2013
Kawana Lake on the Sunshine Coast has a flatwater 4.24km course, with variable winds. The SSC SUP club does a time trial there every Thursday evening. The post from 14/3/13 shows the leader board which gives times over the course, as well as the paddler's average speed. It doesn't indicate what the wind was on the night the paddler did that time though.
The fastest time ever paddled was by Ryan (RJK) who posted in this thread. He's one of our local paddlers, was on a 15' 6" and did 9.89kph over the 4.24 kms. Kai Lenny did the lake last year on a 12' 6" Naish and his average speed was 9.61km/h.
Our fastest woman, Jayne Ryeland, has done 8.88kph.
If you're up this way we can always rustle up a spare raceboard for you to try the distance. We get turnouts from about 6 - 20 people each week.
Interesting thread !
I use a garmin forerunner 810 watch & upload to the Garmin and Strava websites. I used to use my iPhone & imapmyrun/runmeter apps, but find the watch far more accurate and waterproof (afraid ive already drowned 1 iphone) and these sites heaps better.
Garmin has a great wensite but Stava is better from a community perspective & for evaluating how you perform against friends & others.
Strava have got this absolutely nailed for bikes/running and hopefully they extend to paddling soon. In a nutshell, you can define sections for a course and then it matches/ranks you against other people. It also records your 'best efforts' for 1km, 5km etc both for each activity and all time. You can also compare your best all time efforts to others. You can also log equipment ie mountain, road bike or for arguments sake, 10" SUP cruiser, 14" race etc
Disclaimer - I'm not affiliated in any way with either site/company - I'm just a stats/performance freak who likes to monitor how I'm going & improving :)
minmol, thanks for that. If I ever get up that way I will take you up on that.
There's a bunch of about 5 SUP paddlers doing the weekly Time Trials with the Burley Griffen Canoe Club, a 4.7 k circuit.
I think Strava is certainly set up for this thing, it has a huge following in cycling circles.
Hopefully they'll adapt it to show some paddling too, flat water and down winders, you might even get some maximum speeds showing up while surfing.
My Garmin showed an average for yesterday's paddle as 8.6kmh, I was minutes behind the seasoned paddlers.
