Their prize is an all-expenses paid trip to Zanzibar, courtesy of the South African Reynolds Travel Centre in Springs.
The final race took place on August 2 and the top four teams raced it out from Brakpan to Springs for the final pit stop.
From the start of the race in May, the eight teams from various towns in Ekurhuleni had to go through rigorous and fun challenges for eight weeks to earn points along the way. These points determined if a team qualified for the finals or not.
From swimming in ice cold water in the middle of winter to grocery shopping, cake decorating and cake eating, to been locked in a -15 degree freezer, to catching a Metrorail train from Brakpan to Springs, playing with tigers in Brakpan and eating 10 lemons, all eight teams showed commitment and vigour throughout the competition.
In the final leg of the Caxton Rynolds Race, the race kicked off in Brakpan, Sherwood Gardens, with two tigers setting the scene, Enzo and his brother Lorenzo.
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 and wait for their colleagues’ arrival at the Springs train station. From the Springs station, contestants had to drive to the South African Reynolds Travel Centre in Springs. There, they had to peel 20 lemons with their hands and one team member had to eat 10 of those lemons. On completion they had to race it out to the Springs Airfield for the final pit stop of the race.
Team Joburg South was always in the lead along the way and they made it to the final stop far ahead of the other teams.
“We are 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 Mr Naran. Ms Kirsty Hutchinson, from the marketing group of the South African Reynolds Travel Centre, thanked all the sponsors who came on board to help organise the amazing prize of a trip to Zanzibar.
This is the second year of the race and the Caxton East/South branch thanks all the sponsors; South African Reynolds Travel Centres, Hirsch’s Boksburg Market, Super Spar Kenilworth and the Market Super Spar in Benoni for their support.
