Team Joburg South wins Caxton Reynolds Race
After three months of intense, exciting, emotional and sometimes aggressive competition amongst eight local teams, team Joburg South, Prema and Dheshan Naran, walked away as 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, when the top four teams raced from Brakpan to Springs, to the final pit stop.
From the start of the race in May, eight teams from the various towns in Ekurhuleni had to go through rigorous and fun challenges in order to earn points along the way.
Some of the challenges included swimming in ice cold water in the middle of winter, grocery shopping, cake decorating and cake eating, being locked in a -15 degrees freezer, catching a Metrorail train from Brakpan to Springs, playing with tigers in Brakpan North and eating ten lemons.
All eight teams showed commitment and vigour throughout the competition all the way to the finals.
In the final leg, the race kicked off in Brakpan North, with two tigers, Enzo and Lorenzo, setting the scene.
From there, 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 arrival at the Springs train station.
From the Springs station they had to drive to the South African Reynolds Travel Centre, were they had to peel 20 lemons with their hands and one team member had to eat 10 of those lemons.
Upon completion they had to race 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 Naran.
Kirsty Hutchinson from the marketing group of the South African Reynolds Travel Centre thanked all the sponsors who helped organize the amazing prize of a trip to Zanzibar.
This is the second year the race has been held and the Caxton East/South branch thanks all of the sponsors — South African Reynolds Travel Centres, Hirsch’s Boksburg. Market Super Spar Kenilworth and Market Super Spar Benoni for their support.
A big thank you to all the teams for their participation.
Click here for the video of the finals
