“Another day at the office”, this is how Nikola put it to me on the evening before the race. You see I was lacking motivation, I have been for some time now, and despite having driven 500km to get to the venue I was still not in the correct frame of mind and this was [...]

Bellow are some of my very particular experiences with this Western Province Triathlon Championship…
Last year I wanted to do the race. I had a nice swim, felt strong, jumped on my bike, fell and almost cut my right toe off. I did not notice that it was a huge damage, just a lot of blood, [...]

This topic has been a source of irritation for some time but I still fail to see how the race organisers and calendar planners somehow conspired to ruin what could have been two great events for the South African triathletes.
I am referring of course to the Duel Ultra and the Prestige Ultra, both half ironman [...]