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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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