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Saturday 25th October The Sharks 2025 Cedric Avery Mini-Marathons Start on Saturday October 25th and are the last Saturday of each month. Full details are here, with Risk Assessment here.
This Autumn Half-Term The Sharks, working with Peabody Trust are delivering FEE kayaking and canoeing sessions this half-term and they are open to everyone, families are particularly welcome.
Get your entries in now for 8th November The next Barrow Race takes place on 8th November 2025, you can enter here.
Harefield Wild Water Race 2025 This Year’s Harefield Wild Water Race takes place on Saturday 15th November 2025, and you can enter here.
Llangollen 22nd & 23rd November A Chance to see some of Europes best paddlers racing down the Serpents Tail and to race yourself in a Regional Event from below the Tail to Llangollen
Become The Legacy #2 13th December Yes, we are back racing at Southmere Lake in Thamesmead, creating The Legacy, click here to enter, and for more information. This event is designed for newcomers to the sport, it is about having fun and gaining experience.
Plenty of races to get involved with The Sharks have targeted a number of races for us to get involved with some are on our own home territory, other involve day trips or overnight stays. Get involved, have fun and see how far you can go.
Join our sessions at Harefield Want to try something new? or maybe returning to canoeing, then come and join us on Sunday mornings at Harefield, the home of our slalom team. Contact us: call/text on 07951 770241 or email: slalom@thesharks.org.uk.
And Beyond Building on the work of past years, we have great plans for 2025, to grow our project at Harlesden and create a first class canoe club for a first class town.
Things we want to achieve in 2025 Each year we set ourselves a list of challenges for the new year, so this is what we have so far, if you can think of any others please do email us: canoeing@thesharks.org.uk and make your suggestions. We will update the list as we go through the year.
Next Race 8th November The Legendary Barrow Wild Water Race series next race on Saturday November 8th and continues once a moth through to March 2026.
Monthly Mini-Marathons The Sharks 2025 Cedric Avery Mini-Marathons Start on Saturday October 25th and are the last Saturday of each month. Full details are here, with Risk Assessment here.
Our annual Sprint challenge in Harlesden. We have introduced a new challenge at our base in Harlesden, NW10, a monthly Sprint race on the canal with distances of 200m, 500m and 1,000m. Next race is Wednesday April 15th 2026.
Our annual challenge in Southall We have set up a series of Sprint evenings in Southall, running in the Summer moths to give everyone the chance to see how they are progressing, to have some fun and enjoy racing. Great for spectators too.
The Final of the 2025 Series Summer paddling at Harlesden draws in and we hosted our final Sprint races of the season, including a race with and for Harlesden Primary School youngsters attending the after school club.
A new event with a difference A small group of Shark Paddlers tried out an event with a difference, it was more about time on the water and learning new skills, in preparation for competition, although there were some non-ranking races to help.
The Charity Race of the year The second Great Harlesden Charity Canoe Race took part on Wednesday 24th September, raising money for local charities, the Brent Food Bank and Queens Park Rangers Community Trust. Both these charities support local people.
Preparing for Marathon The Sharks have introduced the Harlesden GS Series, the races are 3.5k long and are aimed at preparing youngsters for the Geoff Sanders Races at ranking marathons. However, we also run races for seniors.
