Late afternoon at the end of Day One of last weekend’s Three Cranes Challenge – the first of Old Mutual’s Four Wild Series events – when the last of the competitors were still trickling past the finish line at the Bushwillow Camp in the Karkloof Nature Reserve, the front runners were animatedly discussing the day’s course and results. While some were full of praise for the young runners who blitzed the field in what everyone agreed was a very difficult 32km trail run, Solicitor Manduwa said very little.