Dusi training race success
The EMM backed the local canoe club with prizes and food for the paddlers who finished a 22km paddle with two portages, where paddlers had to take their boats out of the water and run several kilometres as part of the endurance river race training.
A training race supported by Gauteng canoeists and the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (EMM) was held at the Homestead Dam on Saturday, February 1.
The race was in preparation for the Dusi River canoe marathon.
The EMM backed the local canoe club with prizes and food for the paddlers who finished a 22km paddle with two portages, where paddlers had to take their boats out of the water and run several kilometres as part of the endurance river race training.
Bedfordview residents, Guy Carter and Richard Tandy, took part in the Dusi training programme and finished the training race in 1 hour 59 minutes, in the fourth Sub Veteran age category.
More than 100 juniors, in the school-going age groups, also took part after the main training race. This included a number of participants from the Germiston Water Sports club, concentrating on sprint distances as they prepared for the SA School Interprovincial race in May.
