Afritrex - The Challenges

This is what Afritrex is all about…The Challenges.

5 Mountains 5 Marathons.

Chosen to be varied in their content, difficult to achieve and of an interest to different groups of people the tasks are as follows:

• To complete five marathons of at least 26 miles
  
• To climb five of the highest mountains in Africa
  
• To visit as many of the sites across Africa where the Victoria Cross has been won as possible (VC180 Challenge) and
  

By taking on and completing the series of tasks I hope to bring attention to the project through publicity in the UK which will ultimately lead to further sponsorship and more funds for the charities.

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I have chosen five marathons and five mountains that are as evenly spread around the continent to give me the best chance of being fit enough to complete the challenge. Having just run the Flora London Marathon I know that it takes more than a couple of days to recover. Call it a couple of months and you’re getting close.

Trying to visit all of the 180 locations where the VC has been won over the past 200 years will take me off the beaten track to places less visited and remote, I’ll try my best to get to as many as I can but foresee problems reaching some sites as they fall well within some of the trouble spots dotted around the continent.

To find out more about any of these, click the relevant link in the right hand column

 

The Challenges