The beautiful map embroidered by Nozeti of the Keiskamma Trust depicts the route we are following from Hamburg in the Eastern Cape to Cape Town. An early start gave us an advantage today and despite a slight headwind, the team managed to accomplish an amazing 160km to arrive in Knysna by 4pm! These kinds of distances highlight certain emerging characteristics of our riders:
Glenda-"Over the hill"-Doller: "on this ride, over the hill is where you definately wanna be!"
Paul- "Bat outa hell(meatloaf)" Roux: setting a demanding pace as he sped up near Plett after the first 135km of the day.
Steve-"Red Bull"- Bonaconsa: who literally flew along aided by (angels'?) wings!!
David- "Cannon ball"- Lovric: bulleting down the hill into Knysna at 62km/hr.
The "Zog the Frog" trophy was awarded to Glenda today for managing to cycle 75km with a broken spoke and a buckled wheel dragging on the brake!
Well done to the team for their incredible effort and remarkable achievement today!
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Well done indeed!!
ReplyDeleteYesterday I saw Nzali from Keiskamma who is manning their stand at Decorex - her first question to me was 'has the bike ride started? How are they going?' She was involved in getting the map done for the ride and was keen to hear that you had got it. Her greatest delight was when I told her how much money you had already raised!!
Hang in there - wonderful effort by all (especially the support team)
Kate