Friday, 08 August 2008 It’s been another hard week, 1200km done and the terrain is starting to get taxing. Gone are all the secondary roads and holiday towns; ahead lies the ragged rocky coast, sandy, soft coastal migrating dunes, occasionally pegged by reclamation done years ago with

Friday, 08 August 2008 So often in life the little things are overlooked and often it’s the small things that end up making the biggest difference. It is also often to our surprise when a little person stands up to be counted and takes it on his

Monday, 04 August 2008 Finally the majestic table mountain manages to force her way through the swirling cloud and overcast sky taking up her position looking like a massive island in the sea. A sight cherished by many a traveller on land and sea, for me a

Monday, 04 August 2008 It’s taken a few years and thousands of kilometre to realise the importance of my running shoes. I find there are basic lessons. Shoe rotation I have a few pairs of each shoe type, and they are numbered 1 to 4, each morning I

Thursday, 24 July 2008 When you have a day that is long and dark and you feel that you cant go on. You think that your problems are in surmountable and the biggest in the world. You have been dealt the worst deal in life. Sit back

Thursday, 24 July 2008 The mist has been hanging for days now, a twilight zone. One can hardly make out any land mark as the mist seems to wrap everything in a fine gauze film. Every now and then the sun manages to burn a hole in

Monday, 21 July 2008 It was just after 5AM in the morning as we slowly slid out of Cape Town harbour aboard Eve, a beautiful power yacht. The full moon hanging over the glass like ocean, hardly a swell as we majestically cut a line through the

Monday, 21 July 2008 I spent much of the day running on my own at the base of the cliffs along the beach. The NW wind , howling down my back, gently pushing me down the beach. Gulls and Cormorants effortlessly gliding into the wind, hanging as

Sunday, 13 July 2008 It had been a good morning session, the rain now a thing of the past and we were running a fairly firm sand track. The warm afternoon sun baking nicely on our backs, but a cold southerly wind was picking up from the

Sunday, 13 July 2008 It had been a really frustrating day of waiting to get permission for an escorted passage through the diamond mine area. There were fears that if we could not get through, we would be caught up in flash floods from the unrelenting rain