Team Joburg South wins Caxton Reynolds Race 2014
They won an all expenses paid trip to Zanzibar
AFTER three months of intense, exciting, emotional and sometimes aggressive competition among eight local teams, team Joburg South, Prema and Dheshan Naran, walked away the winners of the Caxton Reynolds Race 2014.
They won an all-expenses paid trip to Zanzibar, courtesy of South African Reynolds Travel Centre in Springs.
The final race took place on Saturday and the top four teams raced it out from Brakpan to Springs to the final pit stop.
From the start of the race in May, the eight teams from the various towns in Ekurhuleni had to go through rigorous and fun challenges for eight weeks to earn points along the way to qualify for the finals.
From swimming in ice cold water in the middle of winter, to grocery shopping, cake decorating and cake eating, to be locked in a -15 degrees freezer, to catching a Metrorail train from Brakpan to Springs, playing with tigers in Brakpan and eating 10 lemons in minutes, to a few sleepless nights of strategising and planning to race it out in the finals, all eight teams showed commitment and vigor throughout the competition.
In the final leg, the race kicked off in Brakpan with two tigers, Enzo and his brother Lorenzo, setting the scene. The teams had to race to Brakpan Railway
Station where one team member had to catch a Metrorail train to Springs and the other had to drive to wait for their arrival at the Springs station.
From the Springs station they had to drive to the South African Reynolds Travel Centre in Springs, where they had to peel 20 lemons with their hands and one team member had to eat 10 of those lemons.
Upon completion they had to race it out to the Springs airfield for the final pit stop for the race. Team Joburg South was always in the lead along the way and they made it to the final stop way ahead of the other teams.
“We are very happy and thankful that we made. My wife‘s lips are bleeding from all the lemons but it was a lot of fun and we would do it again in a heartbeat,” said an emotional and happy Dheshan.
Kirsty Hutchinson from the marketing group of the South African Reynolds Travel Centre thanked all the sponsored who came on board from their side to help organise the amazing prize of a trip to Zanzibar.
This is the second year running of the race and the Caxton East/South branch would like to say a big thank you to all the sponsors, South African Reynolds Travel Centres, Hirsch’s Boksburg. Market Super Spar Kenilworth and Market Super Spar Benoni for their support and a big thank you to all the teams for their participation.
