Hanno Smit reports: Reporting on an Expedition race, lasting a handful of days becomes parabolically more comprehensive to a point where technical details blur into emotional and psychological ebbs and flows. The journey, recalculated, translates to an experience of a month or more. So, how would I give feedback of a race of this nature […]
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On Wednesday, 9th June the Merrell Adventure Addicts crossed the line to win the 2015 Expedition Africa in Swaziland. Herewith thoughts from the four individuals who united to form a powerful team. Graham “Tweet” Bird: Adventure Racing is a sport like no other. It sucks you in wholeheartedly. From a few days before the start
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Hanno Smit Report: The Addicts’ assault on EA 2013 was always going to be tricky. We were thrown into the turmoil of finding a female member for our team as well as replacing our team Captain, Tweet, due to injury. This meant that we were going to race as an inexperienced team essentially and it
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Team Merrell’s mixed pair of Hanno Smit and SanMari Woithe won the 100km WCAD Woseley AR over the past weekend in a time of 7h37, just over 40 mins ahead of the competition. It was a great “speed” session before the 500km Expedition Africa which starts in two weeks time. As usual the guys from
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On Saturday 27th Oct the Addicts took to the marked 130km route around the Garden Route for the 2012 Merrell Eden Duo. The Addicts Mens pair of Hanno Smit and Donovan Sims won the race overall with fellow Addicts Graham Bird and Yolande de Villiers winning the mixed pairs category. A great day outside. Download
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The Addicts won the 260km Quantum Leap Adventure Race held on the 23 – 25 August in the northern cape. Addict Graham Bird reports (Photo’s from Peter Kirk): When an old style, tough as nails Adventure Racer puts on an expedition Adventure Race, you know it going to be a good one. This was our
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Addict Hanno Smit took the long and windy road north to Namibia for this 90km non-stop self-supporting race along the infamous Fish River Canyon Hiking trail. Hanno won the event in a new record time of 10h11 shaving more than 30mins off the existing record. See words from Hanno: ““Born to run” or “Fly with
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Graham “Tweet” Bird’s report: It has been a while now since we finished Expedition Africa, but as with all Adventure Races, the memories linger for along time. As in previous years our team had set goals and objectives for the year ahead. We had decided to travel overseas early in the year for the World
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Graham “Tweet” Bird’s report: I am always amazed when looking out of airplane windows when I fly across the country and the world. You get to see the best and worst of what the world has to offer. You see the massive areas of urbanization, industrialization and commercialization that have sprung up to support the
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Graham “Tweet” Bird’s report: Over the past few years the Merrell Adventure Addicts have competed in numerous Adventure Racing World Series Races all over the globe. When we heard in the second half of 2010 that Kinetic (Stephan and Heidi Muller) would be putting on a 500km Expedition Adventure Race here in South Africa we
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