To see Richard's film of the team's training run on Saturday 5 April, click here.
To see Cathy's film of the team's training run on Saturday 5 April, click here.
To see Cathy's film of the team's training run in central London on Saturday 1 March, click here.
To see stills from the same training run, click here.
To read about the team members and find out how to sponsor them, click here.
Download the document below to read team member Kenneth Donaldson's account of The unusual story of a Rhino's journey in South Africa
The original plan:
What: 5 days, 278 kms, carrying all their food and kit, and taking it in turns to wear a rhino costumeWho: Kenneth Donaldson, Terry Phipps, David Powell, Steve Robins and Oliver ToveyWhy (on earth?): To raise money for rhinos and to overtake other competitors
The route (we thought) (actually this was not the original route as published on the RAW Africa site, but one emailed to us a few weeks before the race):
Day 1: 57km. Infanta - De Hoop Nature ReserveDay 2: 45km. De Hoop Nature Reserve - BredasdorpDay 3: 47km. Bredasdorp - Cape AgulhusDay 4: 83km. Cape Agulhas - GansbaaiDay 5: 46km. Gansbaai – Hermanus
Save the Rhino sent a team to run RAW Africa in April 2008.
What was involved? Well, it was supposed to be 278 km (172 miles) or six and a half marathons, split into five stages / days. It starts in Cape Infanta, near to Cape Town, South Africa, and finishes at Hermanus, via the enticingly named Shark Coast and Danger Point. Tents and water were provided, so competitors needed to carry their food, sleeping bag, kit, dry clothes, personal and medical and some compulsory safety gear. Not content with that, the Save the Rhino team would do the whole thing in our desert-adapted 8kg rhino costume.