Tarryn Povey did her first Expedition Africa with Team Indabushe. She’s written a lovely race report.
Expedition Africa is the longest Adventure Race in South Africa. This 500km self-navigation race is made to test your boundaries. This year Stephan and Heidi really stepped it up a notch, and rightly so.
The field of competitors included 10 international teams and 21 local teams. I reckon this international contingent spurred Kinetic Gear to really show them what South Africa has to offer and boy did they do a good job. Of course we didn’t know this until we actually got there.
Alex Percival, Evan Price and Mark Loftus (Lofty) decided that they would put up with me 24 hours a day for 6 days of racing – a big feat if you ask me and together we made up Team Indabushe (it means lynx in Zulu but was more a prediction of where we would spend the majority of our time). With Evan and Lofty being super experienced racers and Al and I relative novices I relied heavily on their advice to get myself packed and ready for the task ahead of us – by this I mean constantly asking questions from how many bottles must I take to what should I wear. Thanks for putting up with me guys I know I must have been a bit of a pain in the rear end…
Of course we couldn’t start packing our re-supply boxes without knowing what exactly we were in for and so on Saturday evening (2 days before race start) all the teams were ushered into the hall to make introductions and get a race overview. What I heard may have scared the living poop out of me.
You can read her race report on her blog, “I wanna be an adventure racer”
(Tarryn, after this one I think you certainly are an adventure racer!)
Photo of Team Indabushe by Bruce Viaene.