Improved performance from canoeing brothers
The portage is an essential part of the Dusi training as paddlers have to get out of the river and run with their boat for up to 18km during the endurance event.
Florida Lake Canoe Club (FLCC) hosted the 30km river race from Daleside to Meyerton with a 3km portage on 1 December as a Dusi training race.
Brothers David and Luke Strachan based in Weltevreden Park are experienced Dusi paddlers and enjoyed the training at the Klip River on 1 December.
They finished their race quite comfortably in a time of two hours and 29 minutes, enjoying the challenging rapids and the training to improve their stamina.
The portage is an essential part of the Dusi training as paddlers have to get out of the river and run with their boat for up to 18km during the endurance event.
The Dusi Canoe Marathon, scheduled to take place in February 2020, is the world’s toughest canoeing endurance event and provides excellent practice for paddlers.
The paddlers are required 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.
