trav walker doing his thing!
What I thought would be a long weekend up to JHB for a Night Race with fellow Team Jeep athletes was actually a weekend full of activities, laughs and fun!
The Team Jeep Athletes which went up were Patrick Belton, Angela Egeland, Mikaela Jonnson, Trav Walker and our “boss” Max.
Our trip was from Saturday to Tuesday but it felt like a whole week! Thanks Bronwen Blunden and Max Cluer for looking after us so well, we stayed in a great self catering bush camp in the Cradle of Humankind.
Sunday was the Salamon Trail Seminaar, a whole day listening to passionate shoe gurus left us drooling and even the mountain bikers wanted to start running! It was cool meeting Ryan Sandes, Kilian Journet and Anna Frost who we will excuse for being a Kiwi at this time of the Rugby world cup! What inspired me most about meeting these athletes is the simplicity they see in sport in terms of their motivation- they run for fun. They have a great passion for their sport and where it takes them. Sport is supposed to be fun and that’s maybe where some of us go wrong when we get all too caught up in the rush and forget about the beauty and pleasure sport offers us. The highlight of the day was a last minute dinner organized in the bush for 30 people, three courses, waiters, what a colonial experience!
Sunday was an early morning ride, a photo shoot with Zoon Cronje, followed by a hearty M&B breakfast! We went out to Monoghan Farm to mark the mtb course for the Energizer night race. It’s not that easy to set up a course, we sat there post our work scoffing down a huge chilli pasta dish grateful we are normally the athletes and not the organizers! The energizer night race/launch was great fun but it has left me eager to go up to do the race now on 15 October!
Us, athletes got to know each other a bit better and meet some of the TJSA partners; 32Gi (Mark Wolf) and the Salamon crew. Sleep deprived from the trip, I have started trying to make up for it now but it’s not always the easiest with varsity assignments due all the time now! Cheers;)
