Friday 9 July | 23h00 Sitting in Osseberg with tears running done his face it dawned on him that he was not going to make the 1300 gate....

Thursday 8th 21h00 Another day on the trail without too much drama. Of interest is the difference in speed and distance once the riders...

Wednesday 7th 21:00 It’s been a day where everyone has simply got on with the job. I’m not going to bore you with a blow by blow but...

Tuesday 6th 22:30 Dust settles on a day another “normal” Freedom challenge day: • Minus 18 degrees on the Witteberg plateau • Cut-offs...

Monday 5th 23:00 Let’s work our way through the field from back to front. Father and son pair of Leon and Brian Kruger rolled into Rhodes...

As the last full Freedom riders (The Brothers Payne) arrived in Rhodes yesterday evening at 20h30 and the Kruger Clan setting off from...

Sun 4th 9:00am The Race Across South Africa has been on the go for 13 days. In that time dreams have been realised and shattered. Goals...

Sat 3 July 10:30am Alex Harris took a tumble on the first night leaving the Ntsikeni reserve and having sustained a rib injury he has...

Timeline: 2 July 06:00am It’s 24 hours since the racing batch set off from outside Pietermaritzburg Town Hall. The entertainment from...

The racing batch are off today and I’m sure they are going to amaze, astound, perplex and impress us with their antics. But it’s worth...

Sunday morning and the Buffalo Herders find themselves in Rhodes. We were a bit confused for a moment until we remembered that it is...

Johannesburg 22 June 2021, the day after Winter Solstice Day Mike Roy The Freedom Poet suggestion in the first race report of a few days...

Johannesburg 16 June 2021, Youth Day Mike Roy It hasn’t taken long. We are back to where it all started, testing ourselves in...

RTC/RTW 2021 Race report #1 Sunday 14 March 2021 Vrederust Farm, up and over Naude’s Nek Mike Roy Only three months ago we were...

Race report #1, 4.30am 7 October 2020 By: Mike Roy The 2020 Freedom Challenge, originally scheduled for June, finally kicks off this...