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There’s always next year. And there’s always 12 speed
I’m sitting next to the fireplace at The Willows Hotel in Willowmore. I was going to make a video but for the last few days my voice has...

Mike Woolnough
Jul 2, 20233 min read


Scratched!
Kim Ward, RTR 2023 When you start a Freedom Challenge event, you know you are going to get scratched – rocks and branches are part of the...

Kim Ward
Jun 27, 20235 min read


Greg's RASA 2023 Journey
9 July 2023 - Day 20 - Trouthaven to Diemersfontein 5-8 July 2023 - Day 16-19 - Willowmore to Trouthaven 4 July 2023 - Day 15 - Kudukaya...

Greg Fisher
Jun 21, 20232 min read


THE GREAT BIG RHODES ADVENTURE
We weren’t supposed to be doing the Race to Rhodes this year. Race to Willowmore was next on the list. A random WhatsApp from Hughes...

Gill Graaf
Jun 17, 20237 min read


FREEDOM CHALLENGE/ RASA Summer 2022
Introduction: In early 2020, as the COVID pandemic began to grip the world, I was on a medical school class reunion Whatsapp and one of...

Craig Bosenberg
Nov 23, 202216 min read


Survival mode
Above, the overarching cloudless canopy of blue was partly obscured by the foliage of the syringa tree that grew next to where I lay. The...

Mike Woolnough
Nov 5, 20224 min read


Race to Paarl 2022 – Observations of an accidental racer
Given all the drama around RASA in 2022 its no surprise that Race To Paarl (RTP) 2022 has taken a bit of a back seat. Unlike in 2021 when...

Charl Van der Spuy
Jul 20, 202212 min read


THE MASTER THIEF OF BROSTERLEA
I have had a few days to reflect on our Race to Cradock adventure. We had ridden the Freedom Circuit, 400km, in April last year. I...

Gill Graaf
Mar 31, 20225 min read


Freedom's Real Heros
Race to Cradock winds down as the Race to Willowmore gets underway. A bus load of riders arrived today headed up by Ron Smythe who got...

Mike Woolnough
Mar 22, 20223 min read


Race Preview by Carlo Gonzaga
At 6am on 1st July I will be on the steps of Pietermaritzburg city hall. No, I will not be starting the Comrades marathon. That would...

Carlo Gonzaga
Jun 24, 20213 min read
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