Uplands Adventure Race

The first Adventure Race hosted by Uplands College on 13 October 2007 was designed to be a sprint race of about 25 km, where team work and group participation were key to completing each task. Teams consisted of four members, including at least one member of the opposite gender. The race started at 06h00 with a 4.5 km run. During this leg, the teams had to shoot a target with a paintball gun in a clearing in the forest. After running back to school, there was a relay race in the pool during which participants had to recover 1 kg weights from the pool.

Then followed a 20 km cycle to Longmere Dam, where the teams had to paddle to and fro across the width of the dam. Next the teams cycled to the Uplands Institute Dam. After having built a raft out of tubes and poles, the contestants had to swim across the dam.

Ms Heidi Cordeiro, Mr John Kerchhoff and Mr Phil Hemus - surprisingly one of the staff teams from Bishop House – came in first. They were closely followed by another staff team from Founders House – that of Ms Jane Scannell, Mr Hilton Pellow-Jarman, Mr Albert Pienaar and Mr Riegardt Smit - proving that the teachers still have what it takes to beat the younger generation.

The first pupil team to finish was that of Ryan Lovett, Jonathan Myburgh, Shaun Emmerick and Jenaed Brodell. Bishop House was the overall winner of the Adventure Race.