The last time the squad were here in 2019 there were infamous landslides that not only destroyed the road mere hours before the Tour de France was set to ride through but also destroyed the canoe slalom course.
After lots of hard work from the locals, the national slalom course has been restored although more work is still needed to bring back the full glory to the upper sections (international site).
Within the performance programme, we believe enjoying the journey is the only way to success, so on top of 2 slalom sessions each day we put on river runs each afternoon/ evening of the trip to help build white water skills and confidence playing around on new dynamic water. It also gave some of the more experienced performance paddlers the opportunity to lead their fellow teammates down new stretches of white water.
After another full-on week of training and holiday, it was time to wrap up the week of training and head back to the UK. Next up for the Performance Squad is a month of training before the second half of the UK racing season begins in September.
For the talent, a quick few days to reset at home before even more races and a trip to Grandtully, Scotland for more racing.
