Two ways to celebrate your healthy lifestyle on May 7
The Tru-Cape MTB is on Saturday, May 7 at The Grabouw Country Club.
The Grabouw Valley will be a hive of healthy activities after the apple harvest with fitness and fun events, celebrating life and the successful harvest season, on Saturday, May 7.
The Tru-Cape Grabouw MTB at the Grabouw Country Club is already a calendar favourite with some of the best single track routes available in the country. The fact that it raises funds for the Grabouw High School is doubly worthwhile.
While there are two events – a MTB Challenge and a Trail run – in two different places, people are welcome to attend both.
In another section of the valley, at the nearby Applewood School, on the Appletiser road, people will be gathering at 8am for an 11km trail run through the beauty of the surrounding fynbos and farmlands, or participate in a more gentle 5km fun run or walk. Online entries for the Tru-Cape Grabouw MTB are via Racetec while Quicket.co.za has tickets and information to enter the trail run. Pay R10 per family at the gate at Applewood School while entries are R100 per Applewood trail run entry and R50 per Applewood fun run entry. There is no charge to enter the Grabouw Country Club.
Applewood parent and apple grower Catherine Boome says that while the primary goal of the event is to raise funds for the school, it is also about celebrating all things apple. “The Applewood Harvest Festival is a day of adventure, apple-themed activities and the best of Elgin’s gourmet artisanal and farm-grown produce. Expect fine fare from local restaurants The Poolroom, Hickory Shack and Peregrine (to name a few) and the best of craft cider and Elgin wines. Master an apple tasting, buy apple pies and apples by the bag and let the kids run free. Lots of entertainment; from live music and tractor rides, to hay-diving and bobbing for apples as well as beautiful goodies from local makers. The trail run is a highlight as this is the first time that runners will experience this beautiful, privately owned and unchartered land, on this side of the N2. Runners already know the older areas but this run will be something truly new. We have buy-in from some well-known runners for this year and we plan to make the 2017 event even more spectacular,” she ends.
Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing, the largest marketer and distributor of South African apples and pears, and responsible for marketing the fruit that supports over 15 200 people and their families, many coming from Grabouw, is a sponsor of both events. Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing’s Marketing Director Conrad Fick, born in and still living in Grabouw, says the activities around both events will give participants and their supporters, a flavour of what farm life in apple country is like.
For Tru-Cape, events such as these represent an opportunity for our customers to meet our growers, and the people that ensure that each apple or pear goes from the tree into the carton and into the fridge in their home as nature intended it.
Cyclists and their supporters first head to The Grabouw Country Club while trail runners meet at Applewood School on the other side of the highway. After the MTB Challenge competitors and their families can head to Applewood School for the Harvest Festival.” http://www.quicket.co.za/events/15230-applewood-harvest-festival-trail-run/
