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Amateur Doping
With the continuing interest surrounding doping across all sports I’ve been wondering just how prevalent amateur doping is. Popular opinion (if that’s anything to go by at all) seems to suggest that a fair number of amateurs actually do dope, either actively: through seeking out an edge in pharmaceuticals, or passively: by accepting prescribed medication [...]
Open Ocean Tracking and Rescues
Taking a cellphone with you out to sea is fast becoming standard safety equipment. They’s small enough, practical, and in the right waterproofing, life saving. However, besides using the phone to talk through your situation, phones have another very useful feature: GPS. Enter, Guardian. It tracks your GPS position (much the same as any other [...]
Supplement Your Thinking
Supplements are all the rage these days. Athletes and non-athletes alike push these products pretty hard- both aggressively and a lot more passively (read: peer-pressure). And the debate is emotional so if you’re looking for reasoned arguments, you need to step back and get a little perspective. Start here, as a suggestion: Position Statement of [...]
Lifestyle Training Manifesto
Lifestyle training means training in all the different sports that fit in with your lifestyle. Practically, it’s difficult to be a downwind surfski paddler if you live in Vredendal. It’s tough to be a mountain climber if you live in Flatland. Yes, you can still be one, but it takes extra-ordinary devotion, and unless you [...]
Anniversary Races
There’s always something special about those races you do each and every year you can. They hold a special place in your heart. It’s those races you develop massive FOMO at the heretical thought of missing it. Regardless your reasons for making the start each year, analysing the results always provide some interesting insight. The [...]
Preparing For A Change In Season
It’s that time of year again when the season starts to swing a little and you notice that the air is different, the sun sets and rises at different times, you start looking for “other” clothes and your internal body clock starts adjusting. And it’s also probably the end of a long summer down South, [...]
Standalone Logbook
In a world of “the cloud” and everything stored online, sometimes you just want to keep stuff to yourself. Who says you have to (or can or want to) stay connected to the great wide interwebs 24×7. Well, if you feel like that about your training log book, then look no further. The iTrainedToday training [...]
Totalsports Challenge 2012 Round Up
It feels like this race should be my New Year’s day- or my birthday. It was a year ago, in 2011, that this race really ignited the spark to re-enter the multisport training/racing scene with oomph. After a decade of relatively non-activity, and then slowly getting less slothful, completing 2011 as a pair with @BrentOne80 [...]
Spectator to Competitor Ratio
Ratios are interesting in that they simply compare two numbers against each as part of a whole. We intuitively grasp the concept of ratios until it gets unnecessarily complicated by an over-zealous maths teacher. But at the root we understand that 1:2 means something is twice as big as something else. So what about our [...]
You’ll Be An Impi Elite Warrior, My Son
From jeep track, to single track to no track: this was Impi, a trail run second to none. The start was marginally delayed while the logistics team were putting the final touches to the course. You know, your average trail items like clearing the puffadders, securing the 8m high tightrope and making sure the 10ft [...]
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