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Its one thing to train for and run a marathon whilst having the comfort of your own home and surroundings to relax and recover in.
But it's a different thing altogether to continually train over a twelve month time window for five different marathons (two only a few weeks apart), be living in the cramped conditions offered by the front seat of a Landrover and a roof tent AND be extremely restricted by the lack of variety and food groups which will be available to us from African markets as we travel through the continent.....so we thought we'd better enlist the help of someone who knows a whole lot more about the subject!
Enter Ben Moser, a good friend who runs a company called Mythbreaker Nutrition, offering advice designed to help individuals acheive their specific health goals.
Over the next few weeks we'll be working closely with Mythbreaker to construct a realistic diet and supplement plan based on the food stuffs we imagine will be avaliable to us while on the trip.
Different parts of the trip will require different approaches; at times we'll be maintaining out fitness with normal training, at others building up to a big race or climb and also the crucial stage of rebuilding once another challenge has been completed!
Keep in touch with our diaries to find out how our bodies are dealing with all of these plans.
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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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