Hi Everyone, What a night. It is such an honour and a privilege to have worked together with the Tshwane Adventure Racing Club to put on this club race. So many people came together and gave everything in making such a fantastic event happen. There are no words that can express the gratitude and awesome feeling it was being a part of YOUR team. The "behind the scene" challenges were conquered with an amazing connected effort of team work. WOW!!!! Once again, something that was proved to me again. Racing is the easy part.
Ok so back to the race. Full results etc will be posted on our club webpage by the end of tomorrow www.tshwane.wordpress.com So, what was the goal of the club race? Well it was to bring basic the basics of "old school" real adventure racing back into the game. You know, 4 person mixed teams getting out there and through team work navigating their way through a set course. Hahaha as per Ryno's comment it wouldn't have been "old school" if it didn't have at least one CP anomaly :-) Anyway, all the teams did fantastic out there, navigating in a very dark night, and fantastically, there was a 100% finishing rate for the race. When the technical hike took a lot longer that expected for most teams, we basically informed teams that we would like them to have the opportunity to finish the full course and it is up to them. Some were able to use this opportunity, others due to other arrangements for Saturday decided to take short course options. But every team, raced through the night and watched the sunrise amongst the sweet calls of fiery necked night jars and made it back to the finish line!!!! WELL DONE TO ALL OF YOU!!!! JULLE IS ALMAL YSTERS!!!!! Here is a provisional summary of the results for now: 1st Place : Kinetic - 10hours 58minutes 2nd Place: Fly-by-Night - 12hours 43minutes 3rd Place: Tshanduko (Schools team) - 13hours 30minutes The race was tight at places for these teams, and great respect to Fly by night (a new tshwane AR club team) and to Tshanduko, a very promising schools AR team for giving a good race. Some two hours + into the race at TA2 these teams were neck on neck. Kinetics wealth of experienced pulled them ahead in the technical hike to pull a good lead for the win. Tshanduko, a very impressive effort out there. as with many teams, you reached yoru percieved limits and went beyond!!! BoyBands So we had 5 teams that were unable to woo ladies to join their teams. (but thanks for atleast trying guys!!) There was an exciting battle between these bachelor herds as they charged through the course. ANTS team took and early lead and pulled about 1,5 hours on their challengers in the technical hike. Platpoot and Hawkstone were swapping positions regularly with Hawkstone pulling the for second. ANTS 9hours 3minutes Hawkstone 10hours 7minutes Platpoot 10hours 46minutes Its going to be GREAT to see how you guys do when you's are official mixed teams!!! The race stories are fantastic.. talk about having it all out there... from "streakers" (or was that ants without pants :-) to bushwacking, temporarily cursing of race organizers, to big smiles at the finish for having been out there... to even an engagement proposal.. what a NIGHT!!!!!! Sounds very much like "Old School" AR to me :-) CONGRATULATIONS EUGENE AND KAREN!!!!!!!! TEAMS, we as the Tshwane Adventure Racing Club would like to thank all of you for taking up the Yster Vark and Lekker adventure race challenge. Please take the time to write team reports about your experience. People out there wanna know about your adventure and what your guys learnt out there!!!!! Please also send us your valuable feedback, good and bad :-) to: [email protected] Have a Super Week l8r hardy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DarkAndDirty" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/darkanddirty?hl=en.
