Reports & Results

The eagerly anticipated second edition of the Kinetic Full Moon Adventure race took place this weekend. With the weather warming up after a long winter, the hibernation period was over for the Red Ants as they joined a swarm of colourful adventurers to race under the moonlight.

As we had done for the Swazi Xtreme three weeks ago, Team Senseless and Team Killers decided to join forces again for the 2nd Kinetic Full Moon Adventure Race. The team would however be different to the team that had raced in Swaziland with both Amy and Steve not being able to the Full Moon due to injuries they had picked up at the Swazi

“THIS IS NOT A GAME!” the words of one Mr Phillipe van der Leeuw ringing in my ears all too often at various points along the 446km route… Apparently that was his way of letting “Muffin Girl” (a.k.a Jane Swarbreck) know that THIS WAS NOT A GAME, as this was Swazi X, and her first long race!

All I can say is that I love this sport with all my heart!!! Maybe 9 years of racing has deepened my love more than what I thought. Seconding was also an amazing experience seeing the race unfold from a different perspective.

The Swazi Extreme had been a burning ambition for a long time. Ever since I saw a write-up of it in the book “Adventure Racing” by Lisa de Speville and Jacques Marais, I had wanted to do it.

Because all fairy tales have a villain and everything turns out to be a little apt… But more about this in due course- this tale is just beginning! It was a tale with many players, from the king (sometimes good, sometimes bad, but we’ll call him Darron) and his lovely Queen Anita, to knights in shining armour (we’ll call them seconds and marshalls), to jesters (known in other circles as cartographers), to sages (these’ll be the locals) and lastly the minions (who could this be other than the teams?). This is the tale of Here be Dragons.