Turned into another busy week. Plenty of exciting pits and pieces, that never equate to faultless training.
Just two bits I post for now: Got another one of “those” phone calls yesterday. From Mason’s Bike Inn. Mmm mmm. The one has arrived. It has arrived. The business has arrived - the S-Works Transition.

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As mentioned in my Midmar Multisport Festival report, I’d won my first triathlon nationals at Midmar Dam ten years ago. Yesterday morning I got to keep my head above the famous ‘Midmar Mile‘ water for the first time with a 15km paddle to start my Duel Ultra Triathlon. Two options to start the day, a 2km swim or [...]

The current icon and pin up girl of South African multisport Jeannie Bomfordset off to New Zealand today to represent South Africa at the World Multisport Champs - the Speights Coast to Coast. Despite rolling the Landy two weeks back, she’s in fine form I’m confident she’ll go a lot better than I did last year [...]

Been a bit on the low side since the 6h30 effort at the Totalsports Challenge last weekend. Seems I went hard enough after all. Always incredible to me how we are made up of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. My emotions often tell a great deal about where the body is at. Been struggling [...]

A video summary of Christoph Sauser winning the first national mountain bike cross country race of 2008 in Jonkershoek. Bart Brentjies second, Silvio Bundi third.

Seldom for the music to be turned down, for the flashing lights to be switched to dim, for the noise in my mind to be silenced. But last Friday at the memorial service of a brilliant youngster, Pieter van Rensburg, I found myself in such a space in time.
I had known Pieter through Paul Roos, with [...]

Not often we get to play on the glamorous side with  rich and famous of Cape Town, but a few of us pulled in to Vida e Cafe for a pre-ride coffee in Camps Bay last Thursday. That with the excuse of ‘admin in CA’ and a swim in the sea… Neither of which happened. But before I write about the ride, [...]

(Some fun impressions from the day - A good laugh)

I got it all horridly wrong. As I ran onto the beach with my mint carbon Epic V10 on my shoulder, the lined up surfski field started nudging forward in anticipation for the start of the 2008 Totalsports Challenge in Kleimnond. For sure the latest I’ve been for a start in years, since missing a triathlon start all [...]

A great start to the year! Had a strong day from gun to tape, in near perfect conditions, with more support than anyone could need. Body responded really well earlier, but fading on me now, and a proper race report will have to wait for the morn…

(Finishing the Totalsports Challenge 2008)

My next few days will be spent rounding up last minute necessities, small bits of specific training, equipment testing, and vowing to do things differently next time. But then race day will come and go, smiles will abound (I hope), and next time round, the cycle repeats. Alas.

So two of my training partners over the past two weeks have put some photo’s up and written their view of some of the moments we’ve shared together. Always a laugh to see the same situation through different perspective. One of my favorite quotes was along those lines a few years back. I cant recall [...]

 
(Bernardo and a compatriot)

My blogging coach came through for a run last weekend, and has some photo’s up on his flickr account. Its my favourite long run, as we start at a Trout Farm entering Jonkershoek, head up the mountain at gradual gradient for twenty min, before a breathtaking 5km contour to a stunning lookout point deep in the [...]

What else is there to ride? 

(Paolo Bettini, Christoph Sauser, Rebecca Rusch, Conrad Stoltz, Chris “Macca” McCormack)

A few friends have yearly gathered for a wine tour on bikes (more wine than riding) in and around Stellenbosch to get the new years party started early. This year the lads were thinned, maybe their chains have been shortened over the past year, but myself and a few friends spent the afternoon in search of a fine wine [...]

Been meaning to share about the Christmas moments last week down on the West Coast at Langebaan with my family, my godfather and some good friends. We nipped down after Ruth’s work day for Christmas eve, leaving a bizarrely stormy Stellenbosch for the West Coast where the storm had passed already.

(Christmas eve sunset across Langebaan [...]