Modern Athlete Magazine Issue 51, October 2013

My Goal Keeping the Rhinos Retired Proteas wicket-keeper Mark Boucher is an avid runner, but over the years has done most of his running on the roads. In the first week of October, however, he will take to the trails for 110km over three days at the Bluffer Puffer Run, and he’ll be doing it to raise funds for rhino conservation. – BY LAUREN VAN DER VYVER he Bluffer was born in 2008 when 12 guys from Cape Town decided to support a mutual friend’s training for the 80km Puffer Trail Run. This saw them cover 100km of trail on the Cape Peninsula over three days, sleeping over in SANparks camping areas, and they repeated the Peninsula setting for the next two years’ runs, followed by two years running in the Overberg Mountains around Elgin-Grabouw and Kleinmond. This year, in early October, the 25-strong group will head to the Cedarberg Mountains up the West Coast for the 2013 Bluffer, and running with them will be former Proteas cricketer Mark Boucher. Having decided to support a worthy cause with their run, the Bluffers chose Mark’s SAB Boucher Conservation charity, which supports the fight to protect the rhinos, and he was thus invited to join the run. He admits it’s going to be a tough undertaking: “I’m not used to trail and the courses I had done previously were nothing more than 14km, so when you’re expected to cover about 30 to 40km a day, I knew I needed to pick it up in training! Fortunately I’ve always been a nature lover, so 25km Saturday morning runs around Table Mountain and Tokai Forest in the recent storms in the Cape were fun.” T Mark doing what he did best! FOR THE RHINOS The 2012 Bluffer Puffer group. More info at www.markboucher.co.za 20 ISSUE 51 OCTOBER 2013 / www.modernathlete.co.za Images: Courtesy Big Sports Mana ??????()5?????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????q]??????????????????????????????????I??????????????????????????????????e????????????e?????????????????????H??????????=??????? ??????????????????????'?e?????????????????????????????=???????????Y???????? ?????????????????????????????9???????????M?e????????????????'?e????????????????????????????????????9????????????????????????????????????????????????t((0

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