Two SA teams in Ireland for the Beast

We’ve got two teams in Ireland and they’ll be racing in the Beast of Ballyhoura. This year The Beast is host to the European Championships and South African teams Castle Light and Lunar Chicks will line up at the start on Wednesday, 30 July 2015 for this 450-kilometre non-stop adventure race.

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Members of Team Castle Light with Adrian Vincent Saffy, Michael de Haast and Laura de Haast and Adrian Le Roux.

Members of the all-female team Lunar Chicks are Nikki Smit, Janine Linder, Jessica Crewdson and Kim van Kets.

There are 50 teams entered – an all-time high for this event. Here’s a story in Life and Fitness Magazine (Ireland) about this year’s event.

Meet ‘The Beast’ in this video.

Good luck to our teams. Visit the event website for tracking and news.

Photograph from last year’s event.