Paddlers prepare for Dusi with endurance race
The third-place team with the most laps included Malcolm Stothard of Kempton Park.
With the Dusi river race from Pietermaritzburg to Durban scheduled to take place late February, canoeists are caught up in fitness and endurance fever.
Dabulamanzi Canoe Club at Emmarentia Dam hosted a four-hour enduro relay event where paddlers could either paddle for four hours and see how many laps they could clock, or they could do the event in a relay team with anything from one to four persons in the team, paddling in single (K1 kayaks) or double (K2 kayaks), or K3 (kayaks plus a K1 kayak) to clock up the most laps.
The third-place team with the most laps included Malcolm Stothard of Kempton Park and owner of Kayak Centre in Modderfontein, with Benoni-based partner Mike Barry.
They worked as two K2 teams (doubles) with a relay partnership with Clinton Cook and Wayne Jacobs from Emmarentia Dam.
