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Not that I’m surprised by Owen’s decision and maybe I should have seen this a long time ago, but he has now confirmed that he won’t be able to make it out to meet me as planned in Ghana and so my project Afritrex has now taken on a very different shape.
Half the people, twice the chance of completing the challenges though and boy has it given me a huge amount of motivation to finish the task I set myself nearly 5 years ago!
Although I’ve been struck down by the dreaded malaria the recovery has been swift and I’m feeling almost 100% again so training for the ‘Big One’, the Comrades Race must now be my main focus.
For the last few days I’ve been toying with the idea of putting the Colonel into a container and shipping it to South Africa as the drive alone would be suicidal, but two days ago another overlander, Case from Holland, arrived in the camp and we’ve decided that together we can make the journey and will arrive in SA by road as was always the idea.
So tomorrow we hit the embassies hard and attempt to get all of the visas we’ll require for the trip south, this will mean another few days sitting tight as we wait for the typically slow African administration to process our applications, but better to do this than arrive at any of the borders without the required documentation.
We’re back on……
Ben & The Colonel
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Welcome to Afritrex - A privately funded charity endurance challenge of marathons, mountains and more; documenting the encounters, obstacles and achievements of 12 months of hard fundraising and charity work across Africa.
Whilst circumnavigating the African Continent I will complete the following challenges:
- To complete five marathons of at least 26 miles
- To climb five of the highest mountains in Africa
- To visit as many of the sites across Africa where the Victoria Cross has been won as possible (VC180 Challenge)
"The challenge to make every penny count"
Have a closer look at the site and find out more about how we'll be spending 2008.
Keep up to date !! - The action is happening as we speak...
Click here for the latest diary entry
Click here for the latest photos
Click here for the latest route
Project Overview
My name is Ben Southall and for the last decade I’ve travelled extensively throughout Southern Africa taking on projects and expeditions to test my abilities and discover exciting new areas of the African continent, whilst in the UK I take part in fitness and endurance events to raise money for charity and thought it was about time I combined the two fields to create my own fundraising expedition from with others could benefit.
So was born Afritrex: the logistical equivalent of one man trying to build spaghetti junction using Taiwanese instructions and a broken shovel.
The idea was simple: take one continent; attempt to circumnavigate it and whilst doing so try and stay fit enough to complete a number of endurance challenges to raise money for my chosen charities and whilst doing so post it all on the internet!
This is set to be the most challenging, exciting and exhausting year of my life, can I really do it?
"The answer is I don't know,
so why not find out!"
This is me Ben Southall and this is my mission throughout 2008. Stay in contact with my progress updates on how things are going through this site.
I’ll be keeping you informed of my progress through biweekly updates to the site, route information and with regular photo and video blogs.
Check our route and progress here
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