2x2 Relay
2x2 Relay - Calendar!
Sun 14 Sep 2025 - Team naming theme is: Aussie Icons
We will be trialing a slight variation to the usual course by alternating between the usual upstream course and a new downstream course every two laps. Make it as social or as competitive as you like ... it is a handicap event after all. Even make it part of your Myall training by doing it all on your own.
- Please enter your team (or as an individual) by emailing lcrkers@gmail.com by Fri before the race
- Handicaps will be emailed to you the night before
- Your team must start on the allocated time
- Keep to the right of any oncoming paddler
- Anti-clockwise turn around the 6km marker
- Standing start at changeover
Sun 26 Oct 2025
Sun 23 Nov 2025
Sun 14 Dec 2025 - Christmas Edition!
2x2 Relay - Join in the fun!
2x2 means 2 boats x 2km laps for a total 8 laps (4 alternate laps for each boat).
This is a fun handicapped team event that is held on a Sunday once each month (except during winter).
Starting at around 7:45am (depending on your handicap) and finishing within 2 hours it does not take up too much of your Sunday. It is followed by a post race gathering and debrief and usually morning tea for those that can stay. Enter as a team of 2 boats (any boat combo) or enter as a single and we will try to match with someone.
It starts and finishes at the pontoon, with changeovers at the pontoon as well from a standing start. Each team of 2 boats, alternate between 2000m sprint efforts from the pontoon to the 6km marker and return. The relay is completed when each team has completed 8 laps i.e. 2x 4x 2000m (16 000m of sprint total).
It is a great social event too. All standard of paddlers are welcome as handicaps are applied based on speed. Family teams are encouraged as it is a great way to introduce kids to racing for fun.
Sprint paddling 2km as fast as you can is a great workout. And each team boat does that 4 times. This is a very valuable exercise when leading wash ride packs and to practise managing physical and mental exhaustion. It is a mental exercise just as much as a physical one as 2000m (estimated 9-13 minutes) is a long distance when paddling at 80 - 100% effort.
Watch the club website for the next up and coming 2x2 relay. It will always be on a Sunday once each month but which Sunday in month will vary to fit around other paddling events.
Fundamentals:-
- Enter by emailing lcrkers@gmail.com by Fri before the race
- Handicaps will be emailed to you the night before
- Your team must start on the allocated time
- Keep to the right of any oncoming paddler
- Anti-clockwise turn around the 6km marker
- Standing start at changeover
Above: Team paddlers change over each lap (Photo: Wade Rowston)
Above: Trying to catch the paddler ahead is the main aim (Photo: Wade Rowston)
