Dedicated or crazy?

Aimee, Maddie and Jazzee headed to Lee Valley on the last weekend before Christmas for the latest of their England Slalom Team and Southern Region Talent Academy training weekends.

The week before had been extremely cold in Somerset, by the weekend the worst seemed to be passing. As we travelled along the M4 the temperature climbed to the relative warmth of +2 degrees Celsius. However, once we turned onto the M25 the gauge dropped with every passing mile. We arrived at Lee Valley to be greeted by thick snow and an air temperature of minus 6 degrees at 10am……. Paddlers just leaving the water had frozen hair and ice on their boats, the lake was frozen solid and could not be crossed. Undeterred our team took to the Olympic course and put in some brave training runs. Maximum respect!