Day in the Life of a Volunteer @ the ABSA Cape Epic with photos

4am'ish - Wake-up
4:30 - 5:00 - Breakfast in Crew Tent
5am - Get into the Convoy and depart

15 cars in each Convoy

• People carriers with volunteers
• Watertruck - Most important
• Volunteer cars
• Branding Bakkie
• Toilets - 2nd most important bakkie
• Lubies - Motorex
• Medics
• Oakley
• Mechanics

Arrive at WP
Wait for truck to get in place
Unload truck
Set-up watersnake
Put up Gazebo's & tables
Cut Fruit!!! 
Mix Energade
Set-up Woolworths stand, fill boxes with food
Put food in the same order as day before so riders know where to find it
Sunblock Check
Open Waterpoint 2
1st Riders come through
Keep filling boxes and cutting fruit and bananas
Encourage riders
Feed riders
Sweepers Arrived
Pack up
Load truck
Pick-up rubbish
Eat lunch
2:30ish - Drive back to Race Village
3:30ish sometimes earlier - Arrive at Race Village
Chill in Chill Zone
Check out Finish line
6pm - Eat in Dining Room with Riders
7pm - Load truck
9pm - Shower and Sleep

Somebody referred to working at a waterpoint is almost as if to move house, the only difference is, you do it 4 times each day for 8 days in a row.

Read an Interview with TC at Waterpoint 2



EPIC Weather



Woolworths Fruitcake, Banana Muffins and Low GI Bars



I love FRUIT - NOT!

4am is early for those Energade people...

Woolies Sweeties

Woolworths Ready - Stage 1 - Citrusdal



Stage 6 - Bien Donne, Paarl - Waterpoint 2 

TC, Kathy & Jan
Stage 4 - Theuniskraal

Opening Waterpoint 2!!

The Epic Sweepers - Go LIESBET

An Epic View on Stage 7
With Gysbert, a real Dutchman, Nicole and Amanda

Fooling around with the Medics - Nurse TC

The lovely Jan Brown and her husband Guy
Finish - Lourensford

The Swiss Ladies - M&M&M
Don't ask, two of them are called Mirjam & the other Maya, but they all responded to M for me. :)

Dieter and his family

We see, speak, hear or do NO EVIL!

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Topping up food with 2 ex-riders that helped us as volunteers, Shawn and Graham

Race Village in Stellenbosch
First time back in die BOS after 10 years after university

Mr Bones

Jan's RAD MOVES

Daniel from Woolworths with his WP2 Woolies Ladies!