Skyrun
(Lite) 2012
Thanks
Adrian, Mike and Pure Adventures team for another awesome (sorry no other word
suffices even though this one has been overused to the point
meaninglessness) trip on the Witteberg.
I
am sure that anyone who has done the
Skyrun or Wartrail will agree
that the views on those mountain ridges beat anything that IMAX theatre could
dream up.
Furthermore
its all in full 3-D. 4-D actually because IMAX will never be able to add the
fourth dimension of danger and pain without risk of litigation.
I
must confess that I resolved somewhere near Avoco - during the second hailstorm
of an otherwise wet and very windy day - that I was 60 years and did not have
to participate in this sort of madness anymore. But, somewhere before Bloem, on
the road home, we started talking about next year and doing the full 100
km.
Last
year I had the privilege to do at least part of the route with my wife Connie.
This year I fulfilled my dream of sharing the full experience to Balloch with
my daughter Christine and mates Jan “Biltong” Bezuidenhout and Nico “Rooi-Jakkalaas”
Labuschagne, all ex-members of team Bloed en OMO. Peet, twin brother of Nico, and
holder of many Comrades silver medals, also joined us to discover that he too
could walk like a horse-broken cowboy after a race.
Remember:
All adDictions ARE DESTRUCTIVE
Abel
van der Merwe
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