These early morning training sessions are taking a bit of getting used to. I read in the latest Go Multi magazine that a habit takes 21 days to form. Let me tell you that the habit of getting up early to train may take even longer than that. Ok, so this morning we only started [...]

I am amazed at how much washing is generated by living in a sportcentric household. With both my wife and I training at the moment we are generating up to two loads of washing a day. With two workout sessions each a day that’s 4 towels and 4 sets of clothes just for exercising. Small [...]

How long is a swimming pool? Not as long as I originally thought actually.  I could never work out why my swimming is so strong at the N1 City Virgin Active gym and why I suffer so much at Constantia. Tonight I found out that the N1 City pool is only 20 meters long and [...]

What a very strange weekend. It started out with me feeling as sick as a dog on Friday, I kind of got arrested by the Metro Police on Saturday morning and by Sunday afternoon I was feeling well enough to go for a 12km run. Silly boy. Of course I should start with the bit [...]

Have you ever had a look at the branding rules for Triathlon. I hadn’t until last week when I stumbled upon them on the interweb. They are very strict. For example the only branding allowed on the wetsuit is that of the manufacturer with a max size front and rear of 80cm squared. The athletes [...]

Proprioception from Latin proprius, meaning “one’s own” and perception) is the sense of the relative position of neighbouring parts of the body. It is the sense that indicates whether the body is moving with required effort, as well as where the various parts of the body are located in relation to each other.Inserted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesthetic>  [...]

Just how crazy was the weather in Cape Town this morning? Horrible is how it was. Howling gales and torrential rain meant that my plan to ride my bike to work was quickly abandoned in favour of staying alive. I am absolutely certain I would not have made it to work without getting knocked off [...]

I really should have paid more attention to my training plan. Yesterday I was feeling lazy and only went for my run very late in the day, assuming that today’s schedule would be the same as last Mondays. Cue shock and horror when I saw that this Monday actually started with an additional 40 min run [...]

It’s strange how I find training to be so much easier now that I have a proper coach who knows what she is doing. My motivation is back after being seriously missing in action. My brain is in gear and my mojo is gettin’ jiggy wid it. Since I started on my keep fit campaign [...]

Today is a rest day. A day to reflect on the week and write about something other than training. (Not that I always stick to the point, but it’s my blog, and I can do what I like here)  Thought number one is, why do people still ride mountain bikes without using some sort of [...]