South African runner Rehan Greeff claimed victory in his TriChallenge in London on Saturday – having completed three Iron-Man triathlons in three countries in six days, all to raise money for children. Read about his incredible journey:
He covered a total distance of 678 km – swimming 11.4 km, cycling 540 km and running 126.6 km – but that does not include all the flights and road travel between the United Kingdom, South Africa and Uganda.
They only arrived in Kisoro, south-western Uganda, at about 8am on Wednesday morning and headed straight from their tiny chartered plane to Lake Mutanda for Rehan’s swim. “Uganda was very different and we had to improvise a lot, but it was beautiful terrain and we even went through parts of the forest where gorillas live,” he said. “The ForAfrika team was very encouraging and passionate, cheering Rehan on the whole way without losing a drop of enthusiasm on what turned out to be a very long haul.”
The physical action may be over, but Rehan is still adding up the pennies: his aim was to raise £100 000 this year to assist vulnerable children in Africa.
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