Team Adventure Inc. Red Ants Spur Adventure Challenge Race Report

Sunday the 22^nd April saw the
Gauteng
leg of the Spur Adventure Challenge series taking place at Pelindaba.  All though the distance was somewhat shorter than a usual sprint adventure race this did not stop some of
Gauteng
’s top teams from taking part.

With most of the Adventure Inc. Red Ants out of town this weekend, only a mixed pair of Nicky and Gerrard Booyens were there to represent the Adventure Inc. Red Ants.

The race started on the bikes with the usual Pelindaba tar uphill, this was one way to get your heart rate up as the pace was fast and furious up the hill.  Once at the top we hit some cool jeep track and then some awesome single track before we got to the transition area.  Here we left our bikes, grabbed a tube and headed off towards the river.  The path down to the river was a great piece of off road trail running.

Once at the river, we hopped onto our tubes and started tubing down the river.  It was about 900m of tubing with a few rapids and if you weren’t careful you got your bum bumped on rocks.  Once at the tube take out we headed off on some more great trail running before we got back to the bike transition area.  Here it was onto the bikes for the last cycle to the finish.  There was some more awesome mountain biking on jeep tracks and some single track with a long downhill all the way to the finish!

The Adventure Inc. Red Ants finished as the 2nd mixed pair and 7^th overall out of over 100 teams that took part.

Thanks to Lisa, Ugene, Spur and all the others involved in another great sprint race.

Thanks also to our sponsors:

Adventure Inc., Julbo, Montrail, Buff, Body Glide, Ram Mountaineering, USN and Bruce Ryneke’s Cycles.