{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/697b2e500507f71624c3f3b3/69dd25c52cfb2f5bcba11d62?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Season 1, episode 1: Day 1 RASA 26","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/697b2e500507f71624c3f3b3/1776099537161-22964cff-0c5b-4884-bd4f-65d8d73173dc.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Hello, freedom Family, and we are back with the first day of the inaugural Race Across South Africa. Our new Freedom Challenge event that allows riders following a GPS route to race the Freedom Trail. As quoted by Sue Wadley, she says, \"this race is for those who prefer riding bikes than carrying them.\" Race across South Africa has started today.</p><p><br></p><p>It has been the brainchild of the original Freedom founder David Wadilove. He had always dreamt about having a race on the trail where a large section of the trail is raced with GPS enabled navigation, and today it has come into fruition in 2026.</p><p><br></p><p>To share the adventures of the trail we are launching today, episode one of the Freedom Trail Podcast, so all your faithful followers who are normally following on the voice notes during our event coverage. I hope it won't be too tricky to move across to receiving the podcast daily and in this way, we hope to share the love of the Freedom Trail to a wider audience. So welcome to our first episode of Freedom Trail Podcast.</p><p><br></p><p>I'm Julia Fisher and my husband Chris and I host the events and tours along the Freedom Trail.</p><p><br></p><p>And today on the start line we had 45 participants lining up for race across South Africa, including six internationals and five women, quite a hot and fiery men's race as well as ladies. So Drikus Coetzee is the race favorite. He has led out from the beginning. He is going far faster than we had anticipated, and he has Willie hot on his wheel. For most of the day Willie has been about 15 minutes behind. Drikus got to Centocow at a crazy four hours 15 minutes. He went past Centocow at quarter past 12 today, didn't even pull in there, and got through to Ntsekeni at ten past four. He spent 10 minutes at Ntsekeni and is now heading out for two Springs.</p><p><br></p><p>In the ladies race, we have the beautiful duo of Sarah Van and Ingrid Avidon riding together. They have ridden a few freedom events together. Ingrid has ridden, I think over 20 Freedom Challenge events, so she is no stranger to this trail. She loves it, and it is great to have them both, showing the men how it's done.</p><p><br></p><p>Riders featured in this episode:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Willie du Plessis - Cap 1</li><li>Nic Stathoulis - Cap 23</li></ul><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://rasa26.maprogress.com/#\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to dot watch the race</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/stories/freedomchallenge/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Follow us on Instagram </a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/FreedomChallengeSA\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Follow us on Facebook</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/FreedomFollowers\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Join the Freedom dot watchers Facebook group</a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Julia Fisher"}