Dear friends and colleagues,
It is with great joy that I can report back that we survived everything that Leon Evans, course designer of the Cape Epic could throw at us. We also triumphed over most of our personally set challenges. I had to dig deep this week and fortunately had a great partner in Evert. There was a time that I was close to giving up, but having an added incentive kept us going. We concluded the 890km of racing, and I had to cycle 3 km home on Saturday after the race. We came 97th overall and 60th in open male teams. The competition was definitely tougher this year.
I did not find any of the stages easy this year and it was hot and tough. Fortunately we had no mechanical trouble and our Giant bicycles served us well.

It was great to see the family at the finish and to be welcomed by Hanno, Schalk and Reona.
A great thank you to all you wonderful people that contributed, I think that we will reach our first goal of R40 000 and are well on our way to the second R40 000.

I promise to give you regular updates and we have a blog up and running for Hanno. Please feel free to contribute on the blog and I will also try to give regular updates.

A special thanks to Michel de Clippel for setting up the blog, Thys Lombard for photos and news paper articles, Polaris Capital and MAD group,

Thank you once again all you special people!

Regards
Danie