52 | Cycling World
Cycling For Rangers
By Will Johnson, Charlie Rose,
Theo Bromfield and Will Addison
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our young men are on an ambitious adventure:
an 8,000km snaking cycle from Johannesburg to
Nairobi, through eight countries and ten national
parks. The motivation To raise awareness about
a cause and part of the world that they feel passionately
about conservation and particularly the welfare of anti-
poaching rangers across sub-Saharan Africa. They are
making a film about their travels and documenting their
journey through a blog. by a grunt about how much or little sleep we got an
update on bowel movements throughout the night. The
nights spent in the tent, which so far has been most of
them, usually feature on the lower end of the scale for
the amount of sleep achieved. So far this week, we’ve
had a group of 16 blokes stumble past our tent, there’s
been 4am cockerels reminding us in Africa it’s time to
get up and, one special night, we had a nervous hippo
scratching round in the bushes next to us. As you can
imagine it makes for a relaxing post-cycle recovery.
Team Dynamics: A Critical Analysis Before long, Johnno has the cooker up and running to
varying degrees of success depending on the choice of
fuel. So far, diesel has created more of a amethrower
effect, unlike petrol, which although creates a small bomb
when used, tends to cook our baked beans pretty well in
the morning. Once breakfast is inhaled, the others pack
up their kit instantaneously.
Will Addison
Since leaving Balule, we have cycled our way through
mountains, rainforest, desert and African savannah to
find ourselves km away from the Botswana border. t
has been some of the toughest cycling of the trip so far.
Cancel that. It has been some of the toughest cycling of
my life so far.
Our typical day starts with Johnno bounding round the
camp room grass, or wherever we have managed to
locate an area to sleep the night before. He tends to do
this around 6am, normally full of life and expectations for
how promptly he wants us out and on the road. Theo is
next up and is usually tinkering with