“Justin Pearse – you are an IronMan”. I have done it and can now finally, after many months of dreaming, tick off the goal marked IronMan South Africa. Despite pointing repeatedly at my crotch with both hands while running down the red carpet, as we’d been instructed to at the briefing, if we wanted to […]
So here I sit – 6.30am on the morning of Saturday the 5th April with a cup of tea and a tennis biscuit. It’s 24 short hours before IronMan South Africa 2014. All that is separating me from the not too easy task of propelling my body, by use of my arms and legs, through […]
And finally the close of another week of training and preparation for the 2014 and 10th anniversary edition of IronMan South Africa. And what a delight to finish it strongly. Feeling strong-er Recovering from a flu a few weeks before the event, you are hopefully always going to get to a point where you feel […]
Knyp vas. Net drie weke tot die begin van IronMan South Africa. Min dae. It was even further back, in the depths of a shivery and sore muscled mid-flu depression that I received a lovely ‘Keep Calm you’ve only got 30 days’ pic fro IronMan South Africa. It must have been sent to inspire. Given […]
FINDING THE PACK – WHY THE CAMELBAK OCTANE XCT? For Mountain Bike rides and trail runs lasting longer than about 2 hours, a hydration pack is essential. And at the very top of the hydration pack pyramid, is Camelbak. It’s a name so synonymous with hydration packs that most people who use them almost automatically […]
51 / 146 was my overall result for my first Big 5 Sports Challenge attempt during the Knysna Oyster Festival 2013. Not too bad. INTRO I can’t remember exactly how I found out about the Big5. I ran the Knysna half-marathon about 10 years back when I had more modest athletic ambitions and at that […]
It’s nice to sit and reflect on a Comrades Marathon run 2 weeks after the event. Life is infinitely more relaxed – there is no longer the need to be training almost every day. The mind is a lot calmer – the Paranoia felt in the 2 weeks leading up to race day has completely […]
I am obsessive compulsive by nature, which unfortunately only exacerbates the ‘fear-of-getting-sick-before-a-big-event’ condition that I and many fellow athletes suffer. Let’s call it pre-race-paranoia (the acronym PRP is much easier to handle than FOGSBABE). I do console myself somewhat by the fact that pre-race paranoia seems to be universally felt among competitors undertaking similarly big […]
BORN TO RUN It was a long and windy road to running happy in my Brooks Shoes, but every kilometre worth. After reading Christopher McDougall’s excellent must-read ‘Born to Run’ – http://amzn.to/IKqLU4 – and determining for myself that there was probably no need for running with Orthotics, I dispensed with them and my longstanding and […]
When I stopped briefly at the Nikevision stall at the Comrades Marathon expo, I had no other ambition other than to look at a different coloured pair of Nike Racer’s I bought a pair at the NY Marathon expo back in 2010 and in my humble opinion; they’re one of the coolest pair of casual […]
