30 Hours, One Bad Night, and a Finish Line With My Family | Road to Gravel Burn Episode 8 PART 2
Dave first heard of the Sedgefield 500, a self-supported, 500km-plus gravel race through South Africa’s Garden Route, watching a video of ultra-endurance cyclist Tegan Phillips take it on years ago. This episode is the honest post-race account: what worked, what didn’t, and the night things nearly fell apart. Somewhere past halfway, a stomach crisis turned a hard day into a genuinely frightening one — alone, in the dark, with no signal and the hardest section of the route still ahead. What followed was one of the more honest reflections on endurance sport you’ll find: not a highlight reel, but the real cost and the real reward of finishing something that once felt out of reach.