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What I love about the Canyon eSports team, is that they manage to make racing bikes on a computer look sexy, which is what the sport needs to grow. I have looked up to the guys from the Pro team ever since I first started racing on Zwift — so to be able to benefit from their mentorship is invaluable!

The two squads that make up the Canyon Development Team already have a full race calendar laid out before them, starting with the newly announced Zwift Racing League. Whilst the senior squads will compete in the Premier league, the younger development squads will cut their teeth in the division below, vying for a spot for promotion in the second season. Previous Post Next Post. What's next for the team? A desperate scrabble for them ensued as we headed straight for the biggest waves at the bottom that we had been desperate to avoid.

The water reacts to obstacles like rocks, ledges and holes by becoming stacked or bunched against these obstacles and creates waves that stand in place whilst water flows through it. We were about to collide with our wave. If we got it right we could flow through without flipping. We collided and a wall of water went over the front knocking Patrick and I down. The boat stalled, but then bounced up and over. We made it! If only just. Our two other boats were less lucky.

The oarsman on the second boat made a good entry but was pushed hard right and got stuck spinning against a huge rock. Pulsing up and down against the slab and being spun around at the same time. Our third boat fared no better; like us they had been knocked by the power of the first waves and had lost the grip on their oars. Whilst reaching for them, an oarsman was dumped into the water.

We had a long swimmer, someone in the rapids. This was really not good. But what I do know for sure is that the look of the ashen, pale-faced of oarsman, when he was finally pulled out of the water, is the closest I ever want to come to experiencing that long swim for myself. Our second boat, spinning and swirling in the deceptively dangerous monster rock eddy, finally managed to get out and pushed through the rest of Lava Falls to join us.

Everyone had a fairly emotional reunion. We were all in one piece and alive to tell the tale. Lunch in a shady spot enabled us to gather ourselves physically and emotionally. She loves to combine her passion for the outdoors with her creative talents and specialises in creative video production with a focus on outdoor adventures, action sports, travel, tourism, culture and lifestyle.

Website: www. Her trip down the Grand Canyon was part of her recent three month Megamoon adventure. A sort of epic honeymoon that involved paddling miles down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon followed by a stint on mountain bikes travelling some 2, miles along the Great Divide to Banff in Alberta Canada. Skip to primary content. New on Sidetracked:. Standing on the jagged rock looking out over the river, we were all trying to discern a pattern.

I was desperate to overlay some sanity to the chaos in front of me. The rock we stood on was from a lava outcrop overlooking one of the best-known rapids in continental USA. The stone was smooth below our feet, worn by the shoes and sandals of many paddlers before us; a testament to the power and gravity of the pulsing water we were trying to fathom.

What had the people before us seen? Which way did they go? Akin to staring into a fire, we looked into the river in front of us and were mesmerised. We were two weeks into our trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon and everything that had gone before seemed to pale into insignificance compared to this. All other rapids we had encountered had had a way through them that you could visually see; an area where an 18ft raft could potentially sneak through.