South African adventurers are accomplished; many of their achievements are documented as World firsts and records. Our adventurers have traversed and circumnavigated countries and continents; they’ve rowed across oceans; scaled mountains; cycled extraordinary distances and descended rivers.
Next Adventure Racing Club evening is Tuesday, 13 July 2010 in Rivonia. We’ll be screening the new video from Kinetic Full Moon race and the 2006 Vlok & Fordyce episode of Swazi Xtreme.
In the very dead of night on Tuesday June 29th Trevor Ball and Ugene Nel crested the Du Toits Kloof Pass and started the last 10 km descent down through the Hawekwas forest to be the first riders to the finish of the 2010 Freedom Challenge non-stop mountain bike race
Western Cape boundary/grens” reads the sign that many of the 2010 Freedom Challenge racers are looking for as they ride the sandy track between Willowmore and Prince Albert.
With the 2400 kilometre Freedom Challenge Race Across South Africa entering its second week there have been a number of big moves by the race front runners as they entered the Baviaanskloof section of the race. Adventure racers Trevor Ball and Ugene Nel have continued to elude Polar Adventurer Alex Harris.
Adventure racers Ugene Nel and Trevor Ball still lead Freedom Challenge. Mountaineer and adventurer Alex Harris, who started two days after them, is closing in on them… As it approaches the half way stage, the 2010 Freedom Challenge Race Across South Africa has seen its fair share of incidents.
Team Cyanosis is hosting their second annual fundraising golf day on Thursday, 29 July 2010. This event is held to support their international racing and, specifically, their participation in the AR World Champs in Spain, in September.
With the world’s attention focused on South Africa, the 2010 Freedom Challenge Race Across South Africa – 7th edition – is about to begin. Called the soul of mountain biking, the Freedom Challenge is a mountain bike race.
A squad of six adventure racers has been selected from 21 applications for places on Team www.AR.co.za. Only half of the squad members will make the final cut to join adventure racer Lisa de Speville in an unusual three-women-one-man team format at the Abu Dhabi Adventure Challenge in December 2010.
