Nine novice teams for Diamond Dash

Numbers have settled on nine novice teams for Diamond Dash 50km weekend after this. These three person teams consist of one experienced person, who will guide the team, and two novices – people new to the sport of adventure racing. Although some novices have completed one or two shorter sprint races, most have never done an adventure race of any distance and their backgrounds are varied.

The teams will be guided by Cobus van Zyl, Grant Frewen, Ian Koegelenberg, Lisa de Speville, Mark Human, Ruan Swanepoel, Sean Hutchinson, Tommy Booth and Tony Abbott. Their experience ranges from many years to a few. What they have in common is an ability to navigate and to share their racing experience and love for this sport to encourage and nurture people new to adventure racing.