Gruelling physical exercise is so much a part of Nick Bester's life that not even broken bones from a severe beating by robbers - let alone a previous robbery, a close encounter with a shark and a motor accident - have stopped him getting back on his bike.
Gruelling physical exercise is so much a part of Nick Bester's life that not even broken bones from a severe beating by robbers — let alone a previous robbery, a close encounter with a shark and a motor accident — have stopped him getting back on his bike.
“It was so severe, they broke my ribs. They tied my hands together. It was brutal. You could see they wanted to kill me., I don’t know why they didn’t. I’m just lucky. They took my wedding ring. They wanted to cut my finger off and I said 'no, no, I’ll help you', so I had to use my own saliva to make it easier for them to take it off,” he recalled.
“They hit me very hard because I had a gun with me. Luckily in the bag I had two credit cards. I gave them the PIN numbers, but they dragged me away from the place where they attacked me to a place where nobody could see me.”Image:You think it will never happen to you again, and then you’re not as sharp as you should be
“I turned on to my back and used my heels to drag myself down the mountain until I saw houses and screamed for help. I was bleeding all over,” he said. He has run the Comrades Marathon 15 times, taking home nine gold medals and winning it in 1991. His love of endurance sports is well known. He was an Ironman champion, Dusi Canoe gold medallist and mountain bike champion.
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