table mountain

The results are up here
Leon and I kicked ass as planned and completed the race in 6 hours 14 minutes (Leon beating me by 1 second! :) ), coming in position 225 and 226 of about 410 starters including teams.
Our split times are as follows
kloof to block house: 1:01
block house to constantia nek: 1:22
constantia nek to klook nek: 3:50

Thanks to Cat and Rob for meeting as at Constantia Nek with our goodies and to Lehesta who organised the picnic and supporters at the finish.

CRAG (cape runners against gravity) is really great. They get me out every Wednesday evening to run a new part of Table Mountain. Its really challenging trying to keep up with these guys leaping up steps and over boulders like a bunch of mountain goats. The views and seeing the very rare Disas really makes me feel like Im getting the most out of living in Cape Town. Its like a feel the love from the mountain man, and I really dig it..
This was really brilliant start to the new year for me. I have never done this hike and loved every second of it. It has motivated me to finally start going on crag www.crag.org.za events, they ran this route the Wednesday after us. Guy and I missioned our way up the mountain, we got to the top in 35 minutes a good 20 minutes before the rest of the crew started arriving. Joe was the last straggler taking well over an hour to get up the mountain. Like the other hippie tourist on top of the mountain we sat there ate snacks and watched the sunset before climbing down.