• 2006: Race results
    The results are presented in an Excel spreadsheet ...more

  • 2006: Team Jungle's report - Lisa de Speville
    It all began in October-ish last year when I received an invitation to attend a 'Celebrity Auction' dinner and had the fortune of being seated at the same table as Bruce Fordyce. As a keen ultra distance runner, I could not have had a better placing and although I didn't have the dosh to 'buy' Bruce on the auction, we did get to chat ...more

  • 2006: Team Singletrack Africa's report - Kevin Dold
    I apologise upfront for the length of this report but this was an event of extreme proportions. These are just SOME (and there were many) of the notable incidences from our race. Culminating in one final XL one ...more

  • 2006: Team Cross Contour's report - James Lea-Cox
    The Swazi Xtreme is the most hyped race of the year and the biggest in Southern Africa. Every year it is held in some remote area of Swaziland with a proliferation of massive mountains, fantastic views and the real possibility of a lurking crocodile ...more

  • 2006: Team Kreature.co.za's report - Lauren Greeff
    It was with much anticipation that we pulled into Malkerns Club to the sight of so many teams packing gear and ready to race. Later, we registered and got our maps on which we had to copy our CP points from a master map. The route was looking mighty interesting ...more

  • 2006: Team Bearing Man's report - George Forder
    We met and packed on Thursday at Richard's. He was wandering around muttering something about the trailer. Elfrieda and Gerhard brought everything in Ammo cases, all 64 of them. They are building and had to bring the entire contents of their house because the builders were stealing them ...more

  • 2006: Team Sterling Light Lager's report - Adrian Saffy
    Having heard and read so much about the Swazi Extreme and the XL happenings that Darron Raw creates at the event had me Extra keen to enter the event someday. This year was to be the year ...more

  • 2006: Team Yoshimi's report - Gerard van Weele
    When do you classify a team as a recreational AR team? This is the existential question that nags me after the Xtra Large SX2006. We are a self-admitted recreational team, but after finishing this year's Swazi, does that categorisation still apply? ...more

  • 2006: Team Powerade Cyanosis' report - Nicholas Mulder
    Two hundred kilometres of extreme adventure: mountain biking along rural mountain trails, white-water rafting down a swollen Lusutfu River, trekking across African savannah, rope ascending a 100m waterfall, navigating the African bush through a moonless night and kloofing through a hidden gorge overgrown with indigenous forest ...more

  • 2006: Team McCain Adventure Addicts' report - Andrew Kock & Ryno Griesel
    Clowns, jugglers and party hats they were thinking no doubt... Some may think that this circus that rolled into the race venue like party tricks are totally new to this sort of racing but the reality is that we have all been racing for some time and so it's never an easy bone to chew on when such a high profile race turns into a bit of a meat-mincer ...more

  • 2006: Team Duesouth's report - Jeannette Walder
    We got to the Malkerns country club, the venue for Swazi Extreme Adventure Race on Thursday lunch time. The cricket field was already covered with tents and kit promising an exciting race with many teams wanting to take home the honors ...more

  • 2006: Team Sola 5's report - Garth Flores
    My wife and I have wanted to do the Swazi Xtreme for a long time (since before we even got married), and this year we decided to go for it. We would be racing as a pair ...more

  • 2006: Team Freegone's report - Grant Frewen
    We arrived at Malkerns cricket club an hour or so before the sunset on Thursday afternoon and saw lots of teams set up and ready to race. Our first debate was where to pitch the tents. There was the cannery which was to feature prominently in our dreams that night and we tried to get as far away as possible but most of the good spots had been taken ...more

  • 2006: Team Where the hell is North? report - Bradley Smit
    The race. It was long, we made it in 50 hours. This was done without any sleep, so you could imagine how we felt at the end - looking at each other wasn't such a good feeling anymore, and the smell is nothing to talk of! ...more

  • 2006: Team Whatever's report - Kevin Hill
    ‘Swazi Extreme 2006 - XL' I read .. and groaned. For Team Whatever, just finishing one of these damn races before prize giving was proving to be a challenge .. we didn't need 'extra' anything! The pressure was building ...more

  • 2006: Team Bloed en OMO's report - Abel van der Merwe
    As this was to be our first proper (or SERI US) Adventure Race I slept badly in the weeks prior to the event. My main concern being whether my son, Rossouw, had the mettle to get his old man back home safely. Had I known what lay ahead I would probably not have slept at all or sent his mother in my place ...more

  • 2006: Team TZN's report - Tony Huglin
    With only Chris having previously participated in race of this length, it was with some trepidation that we set-off from Pretoria early on Thursday morning ...more