The 2019 K2N was only its second time running. Over four days, riders travelled from Kilimajaro to Lake Natron that borders Tanzania and Kenya in east Africa. It showed mountain bikers battling epic climbs and swooping down rocky terrain. All I knew came from a promo video of the event called “K2N Stage Race”. So I had little idea what I was in for when I thought about joining a new mountain bike race that started at Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. And that my knowledge of the place was informed, wrongly it turns out, by the Toto song, ‘Africa’. It didn’t help that I’d never set foot in the continent. He riffed off the names of every country from Morocco,down, until I asked him to stop. I once played and lost this game with a friend’s dad, who happened to be a geography expert.

If you were challenged to name some of the 54 countries on a blank map of the African continent, chances are you won’t get far. A new mountain bike race in Africa is challenging riders to explore spectacular terrain and at the same time help local farmers thrive.

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