FLCC paddlers prepare for the upcoming Dusi

The Florida Lake Canoe Club (FLCC) hosted its 30km Dusi training river race from Daleside to Meyerton on Sunday, 1 December.

The portage is known as an essential part of the Dusi training, as paddlers have to get out of the river and run up to 18km while carrying their boat. The training race is to prepare paddlers for the endurance event scheduled to take place in February 2020.

The world’s toughest canoeing endurance event provides excellent practice for paddlers to speedily and efficiently get out of their boat, grab it, pick it up, run with it for a distance, climb up or down a river bank with it, and put it back in the river to continue the race paddling in the current, white water and through the rapids.

Tristan Trican will participate in his first Dusi race next year with his partner, Hardus Theunissen. Both have been members at the FLCC for many years. They finished the FLCC Dusi training race in a time of 2 hours 28 minutes and ended in 10th position.

Tristan and Hardus are feeling confident as they look forward to the challenge