{"id":723,"date":"2014-02-26T12:17:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T12:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/ct\/?p=723"},"modified":"2014-02-26T12:18:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T12:18:02","slug":"impi-challenge-returns-to-cape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/ct\/news\/impi-challenge-returns-to-cape\/","title":{"rendered":"Impi Challenge returns to Cape"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Chantel<\/a><\/p>\n

The action-packed IMPI Challenge returns to Lievland Wine Estate and Wiesenhof Legacy Park (Stellenbosch) on Saturday, 5 April 2014 and Sunday, 06 April 2014.\u00a0 Participants wanting to hone up on skills before then will be pleased to hear that the Synergy Health and Fitness Club in Stellenbosch are offering training camps as a build up to this much loved event.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2013 I entered the IMPI Elite Race with the intention to win, as R10 000 is a lot of money,\u201d says Chantel Nienaber of the Synergy Health and Fitness Club.\u00a0 \u201cI was doing well until I got to the monkey bars where I kept slipping due to my muddy gloves. I realised that if your goal is to be competitive you need to train prior to the event on an obstacle course.\u00a0 Event though I am a personal trainer, a competitive trail runner and do daily weight and functional training, I was not prepared for the obstacles that one encounters during the IMPI Challenge\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I relocated to Stellenbosch in December 2013 to get involved with Synergy Health and Fitness, I suggested to the new owners that they build an adventure styled obstacle course,\u201d continues Nienaber.\u00a0 \u201cDesigned to help people prepare for the IMPI Challenge, our obstacles\u00a0 will have participants climbing over high gum poles, monkey bars, cargo nets, rope work, leopard crawling, balance beams and wall hopping.\u00a0 Members can also look forward to some running on Blaauklippen\u2019s vineyard track, encountering various obstacles like flipping gum poles, carrying sandbags and hauling tyres over this rugged terrain.\u00a0 I will definitely take part in the IMPI Elite Race in April, but this time round I will not go in as a novice\u201d.<\/p>\n

EVENT INFORMATION:<\/p>\n

Combining trail running with an adventure style obstacle course, there are five structures to choose from when entering the IMPI Challenge:<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Traditional IMPI Challenge:\u00a0 Conquer 18 obstacles over 10 \u2013 12km
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 IMPI Dash \u2013 Compacted Challenge:\u00a0 Families have the chance to compete together.\u00a0 The course will be 5 – 7km with 12 obstacles (ages 10 \u2013 15 years, all adults welcome).
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 IMPI Elite:\u00a0 The course will be 15 \u2013 20km with 25 tough obstacles.
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 IMPI Corporate \u2013 Trample your boss:\u00a0\u00a0 There is no better team building exercise than this!\u00a0 Conquer 18 obstacles over 10 \u2013 12km.
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 IMPI Mini:\u00a0 This mini course will be around 1km and feature smaller versions of some of our favourite obstacles (ages 6 \u2013 10 years, all adults welcome).<\/p>\n

The race categories cater for a variety of athletes, from elite sportspersons, competent and beginner runners and families looking for a fun experience.\u00a0 Participants can enter individually or as part of a team (teams vary in size from 2 \u2013 10 people, although team members start together, they do not need to finish together).<\/p>\n

EVENT DETAILS:<\/p>\n

Date:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saturday, 05 and Sunday, 06 April 2014
\nVenue:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lievland Wine Estate and Wiesenhof Legacy Park, Stellenbosch
\nCategories:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 IMPI Challenge, IMPI Dash, IMPI Elite, IMPI Corporate and IMPI Mini<\/p>\n

Best Dressed:\u00a0 One of the many highlights of the IMPI Challenge, IMPIs are encouraged to let creativity reign.\u00a0 The best dressed individual and\/or team stand the chance to win awesome prizes compliments of our sponsors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The action-packed IMPI Challenge returns to Lievland Wine Estate and Wiesenhof Legacy Park (Stellenbosch) on Saturday, 5 April 2014 and Sunday, 06 April 2014.\u00a0 Participants wanting to hone up on skills before then will be pleased to hear that the Synergy Health and Fitness Club in Stellenbosch are offering training camps as a build up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,4,1,10],"tags":[283,284],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventure","category-featured","category-news","category-sport","tag-impi-challenge","tag-trailnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/ct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/ct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/ct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/ct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/ct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/ct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/ct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/ct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/ct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/ct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/ct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}