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Team Joburg South wins Caxton Reynolds Race 2014

Team Joburg South, Prema and Dheshan Naran, walked away the winners of the Caxton Reynolds Race 2014, with an all-expenses-paid trip to Zanzibar courtesy of South African Reynolds Travel Centre in Springs.

After three months of intense, exciting, emotional and sometimes aggressive competition amongst eight local teams, team Joburg South, Prema and Dheshan Naran, walked away the winners of the Caxton Reynolds Race 2014, with an all-expenses-paid trip to Zanzibar courtesy of South African Reynolds Travel Centre in Springs.

The final race took place this past weekend, August 2, 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 all the various towns in Ekurhuleni had to go through rigorous and fun challenges for eight weeks to earn points along the way to qualify them in the top teams for the finals.

From swimming in ice cold water in the middle of winter to grocery shopping, cake decorating and cake eating, to being locked in a -15 Celsius degrees freezer, to catching a Metrorail train from Brakpan to Springs, playing with tigers in Brakpan and eating ten 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 all the way to the finals.

In the final leg, the race started in Brakpan, Sherwood Gardens, with two tigers setting the scene, Enzo and his brother Lorenzo, from that premises, the teams had to race to the Brakpan train station, where one team member had to catch a Metrorail train from Brakpan to Springs and the others had to drive to wait for their arrival at the Springs train station.

From the Springs station they had to drive to the South African Reynolds Travel Centre in Springs, where they had to peal 20 lemons with their hands and one team member had to eat 10 of those lemons and 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 it, all blood, sweat and tears, 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 sponsors 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 of 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.

Watch the video of the Finals below

 

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