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Team Geronimo rumble with the Red Ants
Team Geronimo for the Red Ants Rumble was made up of Alex, Craig, Anthony, and me, Sarah. Craig, Anthony and I had done a number of sprint races, but this was our first long one.
Category: Reports & Results
Team Cyanosis on AR World Champs
By AdventureLisa on Dec 05, 2011 in Reports & Results
Team Cyanosis reached the town of Burnie, Tasmania after a two-day long haul from South Africa. For the team members, it involved 3 or 4 flights (depending whether you lived on the south coast or in Joburg), 3 or 4 baggage claims and rechecks, and 3 or 4 excess baggage payments. That was the easier [...]
Merrell Adventure Addicts on AR World Champs
By AdventureLisa on Dec 04, 2011 in Reports & Results
Team Merrell Adventure Addicts took part in the recent Adventure Racing World Championship (AWRC) hosted by XPD Australia in Tasmania. They placed 7th overall. Here they recount their experience…
Team Senseless: Swazi Adventure
By AdventureLisa on Dec 02, 2011 in Reports & Results
Caro, Michelle (Assitport Jets) and I had decided to get to Swaziland early on Friday morning and spend the day relaxing around the pool at Hawane where we were staying and the start / finish venue of the Swazi Adventure. Unfortunately the weather was cold and gloomy which led us to huddle inside trying to [...]
WCAD 80km, Ceres
By AdventureLisa on Nov 17, 2011 in Reports & Results
The beautiful Ceres Valleywas the setting for the 3rd and final leg of the 2011 Western Cape Adventure (WCAD) Series which took place on 12 November. This 80km race was advertised as being slightly more manageable than the Leg 1 and 2 in an effort to attract more novices and it had the desired effect [...]
Pennypinchers at MED
By AdventureLisa on Nov 10, 2011 in Reports & Results
The long wait between packing, briefing and the start was finally over. Leg 1- Paddle from Ebb and Flow to Wilderness Beach on the Touws River After a quick prayer by Jan Hennop (race director) we ran down to our K2 and hit the water for the first paddle. Voit and I were second behind the Merrel [...]
Team CUL8R @ Full Moon
This was our first big race, our first real test as a team. Would we pull it off like we had in the shorter sprint races? Would we build up a bigger name for team CUL8R? It all started when we were told that we were entered into the Kinetic Full Moon Adventure Race (120 [...]
Full moon report from the Cyanosis teams
Two Cyanosis teams lined up to start the 2nd Kinetic Full Moon race of 2011. The race started at 13h00 at Ribbokloof, about 50km from
Middleburg. Cyanosis First Ascent was made up of Nicholas Mulder, Nathan Thompson, Piers Pirow and Nicky Booyens. Nicholas and Nathan were three weeks away from the Adventure Racing World Champs in Tasmania. Cyanosis Salomon was composed of Alex Pope, Clinton Mackintosh, Ryno Griesel and Jane Swarbreck. The following is a leg by leg account of the race from each team.
Team Charnas: Full Moon
So Team Charnas (as in my charna bru) was back in business this weekend, this time made up of Seth, Martin, Kevin and yours truly (Stijn). The venue was Ribbokkloof Lodge, about 40km NE of Middelburg and, as most of you will know, it’s flat as a pancake.
Metrogaine Jo’burg lights up Norwood
The third Metrogaine Jo’burg took place on Tuesday (11 Oct) through the suburbs of Norwood, Houghton, Oaklands, Orchards and Orange Grove. These suburbs, like at the previous Metrogaine Jo’burg from Zoo Lake, are well suited to metrogaining because there are very few road closures, which opens up route choice options.
