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by Gee Jackson @geeadventurous.
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I managed to make it out onto my local canal just once with that Compact as part of a kit trial before I set off for the beginning of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal on May 28th, 2022. I’ve never been able to get very excited about things up front and it’s always a relief to actually be there, doing what I said I was going to do. This was no different. With all my challenges I wanted them to be exactly that - a challenge. Based on what I knew had been done before and my own abilities, I assessed what I thought I was capable of doing for each challenge to set myself a goal in terms of time to completion. Considering how little experience I had stand up paddling, let alone for that distance on unknown terrain (I had never portaged more than one lock in a day before let alone the cacophony of locks and swing bridges that faced me on this trail), and that I was completing the challenge solo, I was pretty confident I could do it in 10 days. So, I set myself the goal of 7 days, just to give me something to push for.
Discover Gee Jackson's epic paddle boarding adventure as she sets off on the Liverpool and Leeds canal on her Red Compact inflatable paddle board.
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