Friday, 8 January 2016

The FCSF Matric Students 2015 at Mariazell High School excel.

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The Freedom Challenge Scholarship Fund is pleased to announce that our three students who wrote Matric at the end of last year have achieved...
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Saturday, 12 December 2015

Racing The Munga - Post race reflections.

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This time last week I was wrestling with extreme heat and wind as I crawled my way across the corrugated veins of the Tankwa Karoo. Back in ...
Friday, 11 December 2015

Racing The Munga - Ceres to Wellington

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The guys who welcomed me at Ceres were amazing. In no time at all my devices were on charge and my bike chain cleaned and lubed. I checked t...
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Racing The Munga - Sutherland to Ceres. Chasing a power outage!

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Racing The Munga - Sutherland to Ceres - Part 2

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The road eventually started snaking through some hills. The flat barren landscape giving way to the first orchards. The wind, now funnelled ...

Racing The Munga - Sutherland to Ceres - Tankwa Padstal

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Racing The Munga - Sutherland to Ceres. Tankwa Karoo, 45 degrees Celsius

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Racing The Munga - Sutherland to Ceres - Part 1

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Fed and watered I was shown to my room. I put a power pack on charge, took a quick shower and settled into a 90 minute nap. Retracing my...

Racing The Munga - Sutherland Night Sky

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Racing The Munga - Loxton to Sutherland

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I was duly welcomed at the front door and directed to the register which I signed before sitting down to a good plate of food and a cup of t...

Racing The Munga - Britstown to Loxton - Part 2

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Two minutes after leaving the water point I stopped and swallowed a pain killer. This is going to be a long ride in from here I mused. The l...

Racing the Munga - jeep track from hell

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Racing The Munga - Britstown to Loxton - Part 1

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The decision to push on from Britstown was simple. It had been programmed in my head from before the race. My standard 'opening' of ...

Racing The Munga - Perfect Solitude

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Cool early mornings coupled with good road surfaces were were ideal for bleeding off some miles.

Racing The Munga - van der Kloof Dam to Britstown

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Britstown, according to the race booklet we were given, lay 176 kilometres away and had only 591 metres of ascent. I expected this section t...

Racing The Munga - Rider Support Station Experience

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I arrived at the van der Kloof rider support station shortly after midnight. It was the first of 5 such stations. The experience at these su...

Racing The Munga - Bloemfontein to van der Kloof Dam.

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With a minute to go before the start of the race I glanced around at the other forty three riders. Like me, many of them were checking their...
Tuesday, 8 December 2015

The Munga - Pre race jitters.

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On the morning of the 2nd December while waiting in Bloemfontein for the start of the Munga. I received the following Sms; Hi Mike, we ha...
Tuesday, 1 December 2015

It's Munga time.

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"Fate whispers to the warrior, 'You cannot withstand this storm.' The warrior whispers back, 'I am the storm.' " ...
Monday, 30 November 2015

Is the Munga really the toughest race on Earth?

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  If you go online,  www.themunga.com   you will see the Munga billed as the "Toughest race on Earth."  Click on the Race tab and...

Munga Equipment Choices - Part 3

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I will be riding without a back pack. Reasons for that are covered in a previous post — "Riding in the heat". Stuff that normally ...
Sunday, 29 November 2015

Munga Equipment Choices - Part 2

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Lights.  Apart from standard 29er MTB setup I am running a dynamo hub which will make me power independent. For those not familiar with dyn...
Saturday, 28 November 2015

Munga Equipment Choices - Part 1

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4 days out from the start of The Munga I have prepped my bike and loaded a selection of kit for the race. As it stands, I am probably 4kg...
Friday, 27 November 2015

How to Tackle The Munga

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The numbers. CP1 219 (219) 1099m WP's 70, 140 CP2 395 (176) 591m WP's 277, 337 CP3 585 (190) 886m WP's 457, 522 C...
Friday, 20 November 2015

Equipment modifications for Munga

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Bike needed a few mods. As some of you know I got awful carpal tunnel syndrome after the Race to Cradock last year that kept me off my bik...
Thursday, 19 November 2015

Munga nutritional requirements

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My race nutrition is not something I think anyone should try emulate. I am guessing that I will be in the minority of one who adopt a no-sup...
Wednesday, 18 November 2015

Staying hydrated while riding.

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How much should you drink while exercising? This is an interesting topic and one that is poorly understood. There is an abundance of poor ad...