Thrombi X-Fest 2008

At last year’s X-Fest we ended up not racing at all and just tripping the section twice on the Saturday and once on the Sunday. This year we had a similar plan and already Luke Longridge, Ernest Vosloo and I had agreed that the three of us would do this as last year’s sessions had been absolutely amazingly fun!

Marius du Preez would also be joining us and we waited for him to join. Once he had, Marius and Ernie ran the shuttle while Luke and I watched the change over at the event grounds from the multi-sport event. This could be done as a team thing, or as a solo pursuit where someone would have to paddle up to the waterfall (above the waterfall this year because of the level), then run up the murderous hill with ones kayak where a change over in a team mate would have them running back to the camp grounds. From here someone else could then do the mountain bike leg or of course you could do each discipline yourself! Quite a taxing race if one decides to hook it alone. I believe Shaun Biggs won the event with him tackling it on his own, a remarkable achievement. Nice one.

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