Not all of our events are extreme...find out about the Rhodes Relax

• Rhodes Village was voted in the top 20 Secret Places in Getaway magazine: there is a lot to offer families and destination visitors
• Mums will benefit from ‘hands-free’ time by using the supervised play-park area where little ones can be entertained in safety while mums ride or run (or relax!)
• Sheep on the spit for “National Braai Day” Friday 24 September

For R250, Rhodes Relax entrants may take part in as many of the following six activities as they want to

• Friday morning: 15km “round-about-town’ ride (this you the opportunity to have an exclusive ‘sneak preview’ of the Night Light route whilst the Extreme riders are out on their first ride!)
  
  
• Friday morning: 5km fun run
  
  
• Friday evening: 15km ‘Night Light’ night ride
  
  
• Saturday morning: Guided 40km ‘out-and-back’ ride along exquisite willow-lined Maarten’s Hoek valley – you can do the whole thing or turn back when you’ve had enough and take a swim in the crystal Bell River whilst waiting for the rest of the group to return
  
  
• Saturday morning: San rock art cave tour
  
  
• Saturday afternoon: 2km “Farmhouse Walk” for mums with babies in prams or mums with toddlers on black bikes, JD bugs or with ‘fairy wheels’.
  
  Parents or Grandparents can walk alongside their kids, swim at a relaxed river pool, and walk to a nearby farmhouse for tea, rusks and koeksusters. The kids can feed and hold newborn baby lambs

There are also other offerings available on request (extra cost involved). Please request information and pre-book directly.

• Horse rides around the village
• Guided fly-fishing tuition

Title sponsors



The Rhodes Extreme has now become part of the popular Bonitas Wild Series – a Wildlands Conservation Trust initiative. Welcomed on board is new joint title sponsor for the 2010 event, Bonitas Medical Fund, which is chief sponsor of the Wild Series events.

The only series of events in South Africa with conservation as its driving force, the Wild Series is a collection of multisport challenges including well-established events like the Giants Castle MTB Challenge and Mont-Aux-Sources Run Challenge. Recently joining the series are the Didima Xtreme Challenge and Imfolozi Big 5 MTB Challenge. See www.wildseries.co.za for more information.




The Wildlands Conservation Trust is a dynamic non-profit organisation working to conserve the natural heritage of this beautiful country. To meet this objective the trust works closely with the community, corporate and private partners, as well as other conservation NGOs on four core programmes. Visit the website to learn more: www.wildlands.co.za.

Inspired by the quality offerings to mountain bikers, Anton Apps, a keen fly fisherman and mountain biker who owns a cottage in Rhodes, became involved with the race organisation.

For the 2009 event, his financial recruitment firm, antonapps, pledged personal involvement of their team of professionals as well as financial sponsorship to take the race to the next level – an extreme multiday high-altitude team stage race – and so the Rhodes Challenge escalated into the Rhodes Extreme. After the team’s great experience, they will be back again for 2010.

About antonapps
antonapps is a leading private recruitment firm specialising in placing distinctive Chartered Accountants into Accounting, Finance, Tax and Banking opportunities. We cover all sectors across Africa and South Africa.

Founded in 2003 by Anton Apps, a PwC-trained CA with 16 years’ experience in international financial recruitment and executive search, antonapps has well-established relationships and access to decision-makers in leading blue-chip and private companies. Customised career management and company profiling enables us to selectively connect quality individuals to career-building opportunities.

Other Sponsors

We are seeking other serious sponsors to take on the following:

• Rural development fund
• School sponsorship fund
• Media coverage
• Clothing and apparel
• Prizes and prize money
• Development rider sponsorship
• other