Wiesman Nel

Tell us about the race. It’s a stage race, based on a route used by Genghis Khan’s horse messenger system, which connected almost half of the planet in the 13th century.

You begin riding at 6.30 am and the cutoff time is 8 pm that night. Stopping then is mandatory; if you don’t you get penalised: two minutes for every minute spent riding overtime.

Every 40 km, you get a fresh horse at a so-called