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My wife and I have done sani2c for the last two years but it's likely we are not going to be able to do it next year as we've been on a borrowed entry, so we may need an alternative. We're not local to you guys and will be travelling down to RSA from UK just for the race so it needs to be a good one!! Wine2whales and Berg2bush have been mentioned but is there anything else that might be worth investigating? Looking for a three or four day event which isn't going to kill me (so no Cape Epic or nine day joburg2c). Thanks in advance.

Getting quite excited now, bikes now packed in bike bags, just started my packing. Flight at heathrow tomorrow night to durban and a few days relaxing before the race start - happy days!!

Being in sunny / raining UK and planning packing - whats your extremely cold?

Highs: day one in it's entirety Lows: rear shock going leading to a subtle change in seat angle that left me passing blood for three days. Looking forwards to 2014 becuase the riding here is crap at the moment and i'm behind where i was this time last year, floods, gales all the trails are sodden, hoping to get over to ireland for a few days road training next week and need to man up a bit.

Having done it for the first time last year I would suggest if your wife is a beginner spend equal amounts of time getting her skill set up, The handling levels were surprisingly bad and a lot of people seemed to waste energy just by not being able to manage the off road basics, such as descend reasonably swiftly or manage muddy corners.

Does it make any difference, it's the same course for all. We were a couple in our mid 40's and road in the race category, starting off in group N but moving up to K. I'd go for whichever fits in with your domestic timetable best.

Race, hopefully we can have the mud again on day 2 to make us feel at home!

Kingston Wheelers CC will again be making the long trip from the UK to compete (in a very loose sense) in 2014