Charlie’s Angels sweep Adrift’s adventure race
Jun 19, 2007
HAVING a brewery (Nile Breweries) as a main sponsor of a triathlon race meant it was going to be a tricky one. And indeed, it was heavy heads and bleary eyes, (after a night of hard partying) as 20 teams dragged out of bed on a chilly Sunday morning to tussle it out in the Nile adventure race 2007 a
HAVING a brewery (Nile Breweries) as a main sponsor of a triathlon race meant it was going to be a tricky one. And indeed, it was heavy heads and bleary eyes, (after a night of hard partying) as 20 teams dragged out of bed on a chilly Sunday morning to tussle it out in the Nile adventure race 2007 at the Adrift river base in Jinja. The triathlon featured bungee jumping, relay, cycling, rafting and wall climbing.
In the end, it never mattered whether you were fit. It turned out how well you read the route maps especially for the relay! Some teams ended up running 20km instead of the intended 5km in the relay, with Stanbic Bank as the major casualty. Bankers simply cannot read maps!
Businessmen Charlie Case, Miranda Bowser, Lesley Magnag and Kexie Sheller, who raced under the name, Charlie’s Angels won the triathlon posting three hours 22 minutes. They were closely followed by The Free Spirits (3 hours 27 minutes) and Mission Impossible (three hours 32 minutes).
Even after entering 70 participants in 12 teams, Stanbic Bank failed to make the numbers count. One of their teams, code- named Juba Raha, marshaled by Edward Gibson Nangono, completely failed to raft on the rapids, had the Adrift life savers not intervened on time, they would have been recovered in Juba
Had his teammates not let him down by crawling rather than running, top city advocate Jimmy Muyanja’s Dream Team would have swept top honours. Muyanja did the 5km marathon in one hour 19 minutes but had to fight back the tears as his teammates were a no show. They casually walked in after three hours feasting on sugarcane!
Even after spending days and nights on the Nile, the Adrift team managed a distant fourth, which wasn’t very flattering to Adrift’s adventure race director Cam McLeay.
There was ‘momentary madness’ as one team member of British origin turned up for the bungee jump stark naked. And for this, he was immediately disqualified!
In the end, it never mattered whether you were fit. It turned out how well you read the route maps especially for the relay! Some teams ended up running 20km instead of the intended 5km in the relay, with Stanbic Bank as the major casualty. Bankers simply cannot read maps!
Businessmen Charlie Case, Miranda Bowser, Lesley Magnag and Kexie Sheller, who raced under the name, Charlie’s Angels won the triathlon posting three hours 22 minutes. They were closely followed by The Free Spirits (3 hours 27 minutes) and Mission Impossible (three hours 32 minutes).
Even after entering 70 participants in 12 teams, Stanbic Bank failed to make the numbers count. One of their teams, code- named Juba Raha, marshaled by Edward Gibson Nangono, completely failed to raft on the rapids, had the Adrift life savers not intervened on time, they would have been recovered in Juba
Had his teammates not let him down by crawling rather than running, top city advocate Jimmy Muyanja’s Dream Team would have swept top honours. Muyanja did the 5km marathon in one hour 19 minutes but had to fight back the tears as his teammates were a no show. They casually walked in after three hours feasting on sugarcane!
Even after spending days and nights on the Nile, the Adrift team managed a distant fourth, which wasn’t very flattering to Adrift’s adventure race director Cam McLeay.
There was ‘momentary madness’ as one team member of British origin turned up for the bungee jump stark naked. And for this, he was immediately disqualified!