On the second night, just after dinner, a mild panic crept up on me. It had been a very tough day, with road conditions as bad as anything we’d seen on the Tour in previous years. The recent storms in this normally …
THE TOUR DE TULI The Nedbank Tour de Tuli has been running for the past 12 years and is a renowned, premier mountain bike tour through some of Africa’s most pristine wilderness areas in Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa. It …
GETTING GOING 4:15am… One of the super keen trail runners flushes the toilet and wakes everyone up. It’s been 4 months of training and building excitement for these city slicker, road running, trail newbies and so although there is a …
Simply put, bikepacking is the synthesis of mountain biking and minimalist camping; it evokes the freedom of multi-day backcountry hiking, with the range and thrill of riding a mountain bike. It’s about forging places less travelled, both near and afar, …
The IMANA Wild Ride is South Africa’s original mountain biking stage race, having begun in 2000 with a humble beginnings of thirty-five (2-man) teams. There are limited entries but once in you will get to experience one of the most …
A Wildlands initiative (A Different.org beneficiary), the Wild Series, was established to profile South Africa’s spectacular natural heritage while raising funds for key conservation projects. These events provide participants with the opportunity of running or mountain biking through some of …
Ready for something epic? 170 kilometres, 3000 metres of ascent, 79 kilometres of gravel in 3 Sectors. That is what awaits the brave daring to do the Swartberg 100. The race is known as a ‘Gran Fondo’. The term “Gran …
2016 saw many Different.org heroes swim the mile for a cause. The Midmar Mile has become a highly anticipated milestone on the sporting calendar and is listed in the Guinness World Records as the world’s largest open-water swim. Next year’s …
‘The beauty of fatigue’ and the ‘thrill of conquest’, these are the roots and values of a cycling era which categorises the Eroica challenge in Montagu. The original L’Eroica was imagined in 1997 by Giancarlo Brocci, who through …
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