Day 2 started early again with 7 o'clock breakfast at Bassfeather Lodge just outside Reitz. Because of the bad road conditions in the area, we decided that it would be safer to start after the worst parts were over. Our mountain bikers, Pieter Kunz, Peter Loram and Alex took the scenic route and met up with us further along the way.
Unfortunately we didn't have a nice tail-wind like yesterday, but we were again blessed with sunny skies after the weather forecast didn't look to good earlier.
After riding for about an hour and a half, the MTB'ers again decided to split ways with us, and took Alan Walsh with them. The plan was to take a 30km shortcut, but they eventually rode about 15kms further than the rest of us. At one point they saw a sign saying 17km to go and an hour and a half later they saw the sign that said 16 km to go. Nevertheless, they had great fun on the mountain bikes today!
For the rest of us we continued in the windy weather and at one point caught up with another group that is also riding down to do the Amashova and the two groups rode together for a fair distance. Johan came out tops in a hotspot sprint against one of their best sprinters!!
We all made it safely to Harrismith this afternoon despite a couple of cronic combinitus sufferers...
Keep an eye on our Facebook page during the day for some photos.
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