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Kayden Searle, one of the fastest juniors
(PHOTO By CArL MArAIs)

RACING WITH

soCIAL dIsTANCE

T he year 2020 has certainly biking events calendar looking very to residents – the goal being to get

empty. The Estate management
thrown us a few curveballs,
more people to enjoy this valuable
resulting in many usual
correct routes and track direction.
together with the mountain bike
outdoor activities having to be team at Waterfall Country Estate, asset and to educate them on the
cancelled. This has left the mountain committee headed by Carl Marais some out-of-the-box thinking was
and Jurjen Draaijer, have overcome applied to ensure that lockdown
this challenge in a remarkable way. regulations remained in place, resulting
in a 10-day-long challenge, tracked
Following a series of improvements to via strava – the exercise tracking app.
the 20km mountain bike track, which
winds through Waterfall Country Estate “As most group event-based activities
and village, the local mountain bike had been cancelled or postponed due
committee and estate managers were to lockdown, we wanted to create
looking for a way to relaunch the track an event that was COvID-safe, while

Riders dismounting to overcome a steep uphill A participant goes airborne Rob Erasmus in action on the berms
(PHOTO By JurJEN DrAAIJEr) (PHOTO By CArL MArAIs) (PHOTO By CArL MArAIs)

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