Archive for the ‘Bretts Adventure Stuff’ Category

I braved the 105 on Sunday . (very cold start and a long muddy slide down the single track from Hilton)

It was a day slightly reminiscent of my days at Potch during basics in 79, I revisited some of the old stuff that used to rent space in my head “Ek kanie meer nie Corporal” it took me all of 9hrs 18 to complete.( even the locals seemed unhappy to venture out of their huts from their warm piles of blankets)

Last yr this was my first ever Mountain bike race and it took me 7hrs 50 , I was really keen on improving my time this year!(Yes I put in a fair amount of training hoping to achieve this!)
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We have the Legs do you have the heart?

For the past year our passion for adventure mountain biking has finally been more than about us guys having fun..Evangelist Duncan Comrie & Motivational speaker Brett Ellis teamed up to race the  Sani2C mountain bike challenge (260km), at the end of February 2009.The three day Subaru Sani2C event is one of South Africa’s toughest MTB stage races and attracts teams both locally and internationally.Beginning in the Southern Drakensburg this awesome mountain bike race ends three days later in Scotbourgh.
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