Argus 2014
A student’s company had organised a charity team for the Pebbles Foundation for the 2014 Argus. After much consideration, I decided, to heck with it, I’ll enter, I mean, what’s 109km. As one of the team members, I was required to raise at least R2000 for the charity, which I did (thanks to those who donated!), and wear the team shirt (woohoo, free shirt!). The days leading up to 9 th of March consisted of eating. A lot. And not always stuff that was good for carbo-loading (oops). I had also done three Peninsula flights in the 6 days leading up to the race, so I got a good view of the route (and each flight I thought ‘What have I let yourself in for?!). On Thursday, the wind forecast wasn’t looking good. 30kts, gusting 40kts, and a South Easter to boot. Lekker. The night before the race, the wind was still pumping in Somerset West. I had told myself that if the wind was howling on Sunday morning, I wouldn’t even bother going through to Cape Town. But then I r...