Devon Valley Run 2012

If you follow my blog, you will notice that this is the second time I've done this walk/run (you can view the 2011 blog by clicking HERE).

This year was a little different:

• Last year I went with one friend and a bunch of people I'd never met. This year I went with people I knew.
• Last year the walk/run was 15km.
  This year the walk/run was 12km.
• Last year I ran some of it.
  This year I ran the last 100m only.
• Last year I drank like a trooper.
  This year I did it sober.

The experience was still one that I would love to do again and again and again. If not for the once a year physical exercise then definitely for the strangers who take the time to dress up, who share their awesome mood and to indulge in their drunkenness (so much more fun when you're sober and watching).

Where can one even begin to write a blog about this event? Well, let's start with the costumes. On lying around and drinking wine, my mother and I were struggling to come up with ideas when *POOF* an idea hit her - we would dress up as breathalysers (easy to do considering my dad works at RedLine):

Aunty Colleen | Me | Richard | My mom

My contribution to the costumes

As anyone does when they attend these events and they dress up, you start to panic when you pull up in the car park and no one has dressed up yet, so I took the cold walk of shame and got our tags and drinking cups. It wasn't long before people started to arrive dressed up and ready for action. There were people dressed as ballerinas, vampires, zombie babies, a taxi, nurses and patients and so much more!

After much waiting and many nervous pee-breaks, we were standing merged with the crowd anxious to get the race started and *BOOM* went the siren and off we went.

Two ladies with one HUGE boob each

Zombie babies - BIG babies

Taxi made of wine boxes

The starting line

Let the walk begin

Aunty Colleen with a big grin on her face

The wine estates that we stopped at this year were:

1. Started at Oude Libertas Ampitheatre
2. Middlevlei
3. Clos Malverne
4. Louiseval
5. JC Le Roux
6. Finished at Oude Libertas Ampitheatre

Here are some pics of our journey:

Stop One: Middelvlei

Sticking with the crowd - no, we aren't last

Farm workers cheering us on | Theme song and all

Colleen and Mom pushing through the line

First pit stop and they're already hungry

Just keep walking, walking, walking

After the first taste of wine, these are two ladies on a mission

Old-school farm bakkie

Naughty Girl | Blow Me

Stop Two

The dirt road is never ending

Yoghurt, food and wine - Stop Three

Inside the wine cellar

Tired but still going

Blow Me

The view from Louiseval

The long road ahead

Finally JC Le Roux

Mom and Colleen have found a fan

...or two

First and only time my cup got used
Non-alcoholic champagne

Aunty Colleen looking very determined

More views

One of the biggest hills around but they're doing it

From JC Le Roux

Fill me up please!

Proud moments

Not too sure about this wine...

Oooo, not too bad actually!

More WINE!

Kids sports day on the way back

Still smiling

Mini-break

The Finish Line

The reward for a non-drinker

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