Nicholas Mulder and Ryno Griesel of the Cyanosis adventure racing team are in the final steps of preparation for taking on the 210km Drakensberg Grand Traverse. The pair will take on the challenge on the weekend of 22 to 24 January. Weather permitting, they will also be aiming to beat Andrew Porter’s record of 61 hours, 24 minutes.
It’s time for the first AR Club evening of 2010 and I have the most superb line-up for you. Our guest speaker, Zac van Heerden, will talk to us about the ins-and-outs of sports testing – what physiological assessments involve, what kind of information is collected and how this infomation is used to develop individualised training programmes.
The Garmin Wartrail challenge presented by PURE ADVENTURES is now open for the maverick, crazy, brave-hearted, extreme eco-athlete. Utilizing an extreme adventure sports terrain in the South African heartland – the North Eastern Cape – a new dimension in adventure sports opens to reveal a balanced multi-sports adventure.
As I am unable to attend the Namib Desert Challenge (21-25 February 2010) presented by Kinetic Events, my entry, which I received after winning ladies last year, is up for grabs. The usual entry fee is €995.00 (EUR) per competitor, which is around R10,750. My entry is going for a R1,500 admin fee.
Orienteering is the most convenient and best way to train navigational skills. And it is far better to spend R40 to learn from mistakes at an orienteering event than to spend R1000 at an adventure race and compromise your team’s success through poor navigation.
A five-star hotel may span the last of the Vaal River’s untouched islands. This is of interest to our community as we participate in events that have been held over the years in this area. The Vredefort Dome Action Group is fighting this development and they are collecting support for their campaign.
After a week on the water, Trans-Atlantic solo rower Peter van Kets is in second place and chasing down solo rival Charlie Pitcher. In this first week Peter has been smacked about by bad weather and large side-on swells, had a close-encounter with a ship and was visited, at night, by a big something that kept bumping into his boat.
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