The thought of paddling in the middle of night, in the middle of winter did not exactly *warm *me up to the prospect of doing this race. But Hardy’s promise of ‘old school adventure racing’ reminded a very race-rusty Team A2A that this is exactly the crazy kind of thing that Mr Darron Raw would dream up for Swazi X.
Despite its small size and publicity this Ystervark and Hooona Tand took us through some spectacular places and provided a sustained challenge both on the river and in the mountains. It matched if not exceeded my experience on much bigger races.
Well, where do I start? This race took our breath away; both literally and figuratively! Nicky, Gert and I had not raced together since Singletrack Africa AR in September 2007. This was Team Red Ants first 100km + race since then, and we would most certainly be up against it with the quality of the field…
Team Hawkstone: What an awesome race. Thanks Stephan and Heidi for putting on such a great race. It was well organized and executed and I believe it was great value for money!! Thanks to Adrian and Greg for racing with me you guys are great to race with.
Team AR: Kinetic’s Full Moon race held this weekend was one of the friendliest adventure races that I’ve been too. And there were many small touches that made it special.
Ok about the last leg… Yet another sting in the tail. Just when we thought the last leg would hopefully be a straight forward one, we were wrong once again! It ended up as another 26hrs of bundu bashing through rain forest, trying to follow an old loggers’ trail that was non-existent.
SMS from Nikki at 01h29 Oz (17h29 SA): “They’re here! Broken, but smiling. Yay!”
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