Durban winters are the best!

There must be very few places in the world where you can paddle in a vest in the middle of winter. In the picture below you’ll see one of our awesome winter sun rises and in the other, the conditions that greeted me when I arrived at the lagoon this afternoon.

Although I am sad that my training partner from the last 3 and a half weeks, Ryan Louw has gone back to Cradock I am happy to say that the sprinters are back from Europe. I’ll be planning to hook up with Mike Arthur and Nic Burden again for some high quality speed sessions.

Well done to the SA Sprint Team!
Our national team did is proud in the last world cup in Szeged, Hungary. Bridgette was amazing with her gold in the 500m K1 and bronze in the 1000m K1. Shaun and Mike were mind blowing with their silver in the 200m K2 and 4th in the 500m K2. It is scary to think that they only jumped in the boat 4 or 5 times before this event. Stu and Cam for making the 1000m K2 A-final. At 18 and 20 years old the world better be ready for a lot of big results from this young combination. Not forgetting the 1000m K4 crew of Greg Louw, Nic Burden, Len Jenkins and Mike Arthur for also making it through to the A-final. Well done team!