Following on from the efforts of last week, this was to have been an easy training race. It was even suggested to me by Nikola that I consider abandoning in order to save myself for the hard Ironman South Africa training that lay ahead. Unfortunately my competitive spirit simply would not rest and I found [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]