{"id":124338,"date":"2016-06-09T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/124338\/vlc-paddlers-take-to-the-river-to-earn-a-grade-status\/"},"modified":"2016-06-10T09:05:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T07:05:11","slug":"vlc-paddlers-take-to-the-river-to-earn-a-grade-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2016\/06\/09\/vlc-paddlers-take-to-the-river-to-earn-a-grade-status\/","title":{"rendered":"VLC paddlers take to the river to earn A-grade status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the onset of winter, the season for river racing has started while water levels are low and manageable, to build up to the A-grade river races from October to March, next year.<\/p>\n<p>Paddlers need to gain experience, as well as points for qualification to do the A-grade rivers and build up their stamina, endurance and fitness.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Victoria Lake Canoe Club (VLC) has hosted a number of novice-friendly beginner races to help get the new paddlers up and running.<\/p>\n<p>The race that took place on World Environment Day, recently, as a tribute to Paddle for the Planet, started in Meyerton and ran 22kms on the Klip River, to Three Rivers, near the junction of the Vaal River.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Christina Sears, A VLC member, started racing in April, and has now completed four of the required six races for A-grade river status.<\/p>\n<p>She is very fortunate as her partner and husband, Michael, is a highly experienced Dusi paddler, providing her with a hands-on full time river coach.<\/p>\n<p>They finished the 22km river race as the third mixed doubles (male\/female combination) in a time of one hour and 49 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/122996\/paddlers-take-to-the-river\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paddlers take to the river<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/121719\/boats-damaged-in-river-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boats damaged in river race<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='1542c3696f8b4160d57f702a74044e7a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Lake Canoe Club hosted another successful river race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":124339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[1296,979,969,1143,2734,1297,1119,1675,2822],"class_list":["post-124338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-canoeing","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-lake","tag-melissa-hart","tag-paddling","tag-sport-2","tag-victoria-lake-canoe-club","tag-vlc"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["canoeing","germiston","germiston city news","Germiston Lake","melissa hart","paddling","sport","Victoria Lake Canoe Club","VLC"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}