N3TC Drak set to celebrate its 25 birthday in style

ENTRIES for the popular two-day 62 kilometre N3TC Drak Challenge Canoe Marathon, which celebrates its 25th anniversary on 20 and 21 January 2018, are open.

Timed to coincide with the best of the summer rainfalls in the region, the event will share the same weekend – usually the last weekend of the end-of-year holidays, with the Thrombi-XFest for kayakers that runs through Thrombi Gorge, immediately below the canoe race finish.

Making it a bumper weekend for the region, the two-day sporting bonanza will also include the Euro Steel Drak Descent mountain bike race and trail runs alongside the river, providing a totally unique pairing of events that allows friendly banter between the paddlers and the land-based athletes.

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The race has positioned itself as a K1 (or singles) event since 2002, encouraging paddlers to race in K1 craft, while happily accommodating K2, and even a few gallant K3 entries. The flexible race administration always allows paddlers to convert K2 entries to two K1 entries right up to the day of the race itself, a paddler-centric outlook that has contributed to the race’s popularity.

Entries for the race are now open through ROAG via https://drak.co.za/enter/

The N3TC Drak Challenge starts at Castleburn on Saturday 20 January with a 24 kilometres stage to Sinister Pool, just above the Swartberg Road. The second stage is 36 kilometres finishing at Early Mist Farm close to Coleford resort. Visit: www.drak.co.za.

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