Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Prequel to "The Mountain Roared"

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The last 20 hours of the race for me were rather dramatic but it occurred to me that the first part of the race never got a mention so here ...
Monday, 16 June 2014

The Mountain Roared

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So much to say about a few short days. Let's start with yesterday. Arrived at Ongeluksnek just after 8pm having left Pietermaritzburg 3...
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Thursday, 12 June 2014

Carrot and Stick Challenge

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From the previous post it is obvious that dangling a benefit to the Freedom Challenge Scholarship Fund makes me a soft target. To date over ...
Wednesday, 11 June 2014

The Ordinary Cyclist is Challenged

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Chris Morris posted the following challenge I think Mike is full of crap! All this stuff about strategy, rest, flabby guts, over weight, ...
Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Underweight and Undertrained

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I have tried the strategy of arriving at the start line overweight and undertrained and it has certain advantages but non that matter once t...
Sunday, 8 June 2014

The necessity of sleep and rest

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While attempting a long period of non stop activity such as the Race to Rhodes one needs to bear in mind the necessity of sleep and rest. Fa...
Wednesday, 4 June 2014

The challenge of riding and navigating at night.

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Night riding is not everyone's cup of tea. The Joburg chapter of Freedom Challenge Veterans and Friends regularly get together most week...

The Challenges of Navigating the Freedom Trail

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In response to a question from Eddie Leggo where he asks "Mike how do you navigate the ride is the route marked or do you follow GPS co...

LCHF and the Race to Rhodes.

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6 months ago I adopted the low carb high fat (LCHF) lifestyle as advocated locally by Tim Noakes. I am keen to see how it plays out on the r...
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Strategy matters.

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Strategy, strategy, strategy. Those are the 3 most important elements of a successful Race to Rhodes. This begs the question - what constitu...

Race to Rhodes! What's that?

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How does Race to Rhodes work? That's an interesting question as it is a race like no other. In the inaugural event last year Glenn Harri...

2 weeks to go!

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As I sit here gobbling down another Noakes approved greasy breakfast I am aware that in 2 weeks time I will be driving down to Pmb to head d...

On the road again

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After a one year hiatus I am returning to race the Freedom Trail route again. Have been babbling on about it on a Whatsapp group. Will trans...
Sunday, 22 July 2012

Day 15 and beyond - the final push

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For the first time since the race began I got up at a civilised time and tucked in to a great breakfast. Once everything was ship shape I we...
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Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Day 14 - A rest day of 160 kilometres

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After just 3 hours sleep I was woken by Brian's alarm. Not quite what I had in mind but I was awake so I got up had a shower and prepped...
Tuesday, 17 July 2012

Day 13 - 'Never take drugs to mask pain when you are on the bike!' - Really?

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3 am and I was riding out of Dam se Drif with Tweet. One doesn't actually ride "with" Tweet. Its more a case of riding in his ...

Day 12 - getting back in to the race groove

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Getting up just before 4 Tweet and I heated some water for coffee on the Aga stove and managed to make toast in the oven. With about 965km...
Monday, 16 July 2012

Day 11 - legs back online and well greased

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Got out of bed at 5am and found the breakfast table set for 4 people. A quick trip outside revealed that Tweet (Graham Bird) had arrived aft...

Day 10 - a fortunate encounter

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After a good nights sleep I rolled out of Grootdam a few minutes after Chris and Dawn. It was clear that my aching body had not miraculously...
Sunday, 15 July 2012

Day 9 - The wheels fall off

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It was time to make up lost time so we left Stuttgard with the intention of doubling through Grootdam to van der Venterskraal. Allen and Ric...
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Day 8 - A brief encounter with the flat karoo

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We faced a long ride today over Aasvoelberg, through Hofmeyr and on to Elandsberg. We were hoping to get through that section quick enough t...

Day 7 - We get to ride our bikes again

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6am start with us dressed for the anticipated rain. An hour in to the ride it seemed like it was shaping up to be a gorgeous day. As it got ...
Friday, 13 July 2012

Day 6 - the mud wrestling continues

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Day got off to an interesting start. After arriving at 01:35am we got to bed at about 2:30am. I asked Trevor what time he was setting his al...
Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Trevor wanted to know why the kit list had a bike mentioned as a necessity.

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Dr Livingston I presume?

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Day 5 - would you like a side order of mud to go with that downpour?

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Having got a good rest at Chesneywold we wanted to get to Kranskop which would be a stage and a half for the day. Unfortunately there were 3...
Monday, 9 July 2012

Day 4 - Good sleep at last

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2 hours sleep and we were on our way again. We were still sleep deprived and took our first power nap at midday stretched out in the sun. Ou...

Day 3 - Rampant Sleep Monsters

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We headed out at about 4am and on the spur of the moment I decided that we would try the longer but faster route out of the lodge which I kn...