Pietermaritzburg businessman Con Malherbe is the first cancer survivor to take on the Cape Epic to raise R250 000 for the Cancer Association of South Africa (Cansa). “We’ve not had a cancer survivor at the Cape Epic ever before,” said Lellani Geduld of Cancer Active, a sub-brand within Cansa,toThe Witness. “A lack of regular exercise and physical activity; being overweight or obese; combined with unhealthy dietary and lifestyle habits, for example, tanning, smoking and drinking alcohol, may increase your personal risk of being diagnosed with cancer,” said Geduld.
Cansa Active invites everyone, regardless of fitness level, from pre-schoolers to great grandparents; fitness enthusiasts; serious athletes; sport groups or clubs; family and social joggers; runners; walkers, cyclists, swimmers and adventure sport enthusiasts to get moving towards better health. Local cancer charities that Cansa Warriors Malherbe and Jared Hinde are fundraising towards include the Hayfields Care Home and the Cansa Mkhuhla Care Home in Durban. Last year, Rodney Reynders from Umhlanga, who, like Malherbe, is a cancer survivor, took part in the Absa Run Your City Durban 10km event.
Johann Klindt, who manages the Cape Epic teams that ride for Cansa, is himself a survivor of two Cape Epics. Although fortunate enough not to have suffered cancer himself, he is doing the job ‘to buy my way into heaven’. The challenge, dubbed ‘The Untamed’, took him to hell.
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That’s how he described the race after the euphoria of day one. “The first day, it’s unreal, a new reality. The sixth day is not such fun.
You doubt yourself in that 45°C heat. You don’t even say a word to your partner. You just look at each other.” But afterwards, there are tears of joy.
And more euphoria, Klindt recalled. “If someone asks ‘will you do it again next year?’ You’ll say ‘YES!’ But if asked a week later, you’ll think differently.”
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