Solitary long ride from farm to the top of Jonah’s Kop, the highest peak in my hood. A thousand metres altitude gain, but will be more total gain. Distance 14km. Making it very similar in profile to Alpe d’Huez. Only, Pantani made that ascent in 37’ and I take 1h14’ for this…

My doubles partner from last year called me up to race the 28km flat-water with him. Thankfully he’s been spending time on the water and pulled us through. Not the most competitive race, but loved the racing. A few hard attacks. Plenty fun. Finished third.

Pieta Swannepoel asked if I’d join him on a small adventure race. Explained I wasn’t in form, but he agreed. Mtb, run, mtb, run. The mountain bike was on trails I knew in Jonkershoek, which I really enjoyed, and the run was mainly in the rocky river bed of the Eerste River. We came into [...]

Traditionally the first K1 race on the calendar. Hadn’t paddled for a month. Figured a race the appropriate way to get going again. Bout one third in, the river dried and there was 500m of muddy portaging. But it was all downhill hereafter. My old man nearly caught me. Did the most magic long ride [...]

Conrad Stoltz, Lieuwe Boonstra, and myself were asked to muck about on bikes for some media to use in Xterra SA build up. Unsure how I cracked the nod, but was a good laugh fooling around with the two athletes I finished third to at my first Xterra 4 years ago as a junior.