Merry Christmas and Happy new year 2017

947 bike race

We did it! Almost one hundred kilometres of biking with start near our home, trying our speed at the new Kyalami race track, all the way to downtown Johannesburg riding on the highway, over Mandela bridge and back home through Cradle of Humankind and Lion Park. It was tough but definitely worth it. Our legs were rather wobbly in the evening and our bums sore. 

The radio station 94.7 organises a bike race every year and it has become a massive event. 30.000 bikers joined this year. Many do it over and over again, for K and me it was the first bike race ever. We trained on our old mountain bikes, which was maybe not the best ones for a road race, but we really enjoyed the day and were very proud to finish it. The vibe was so great we might actually join next year again. 

We rode for a charity called Project Dignity, which provides washable sanitary pads and panties for township girls who cannot afford to buy sanitary products for those days of the month. They use tissues, leaves, newspapers, whatever they can find and often miss school up to one week per month. With one pack of SUBZ, which includes nine pads and three pairs of panties, they are able finish school as the pack should cover them for five years, so about ages 13-18. 

One package of SUBZ costs 200 rand (about 15 euros). With the proceeds from the race and other fund raising events before the race, our team raised enough money for 500 girls!!!