It's been said that pain is just fear leaving the body. If that's true, then by the end of the Cape Epic, Rob Peters and Stuart Davies will fear nothing. The sole members of Team iAfrica Morewood, these lads (both barely amateur riders) will be taking on the agonising 900km route. In 8 days they'll climb 16000 meters. To put that into perspective, it's about one and a half times the cruising altitude of a domestic flight.
The Cape Epic is Africa's toughest off-road race. Real athletes from both South Africa and abroad put in several months of training and still end up hurting. Rob and Stu have a fraction of the experience, and about as much time in the saddle, the evidence of which you'll find in Rob's column. They will suffer. There are more details, but, for the sake of brevity, we can compare their situation to sending a couple of ballerinas onto a battlefield. They will suffer. There can be no doubt.
Morewood has supplied journalist Rob Peters and sales executive Stuart Davies of iafrica with two highly spec'd Shova ST mountain bikes to complete their adventure.
You can tune in to Rob's column on iafrica.com here » You can check out Rob's bike here »