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On relatively short notice, I joined my uncle, a friend of my uncle’s, and two cousins on a run in Cape Town. They were aiming to do Three-Peaks: Devil’s Peak, McClear’s Beacon and Lion’s Head. I only did the first. Starting at Kloofnek (250m), we headed up the mountain to the fire lookout (501m). From [...]

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At the moment I’m feeling a little overloaded with a bunch of stuff. This is causing a lull on the social side of things. More serious socialising will mostly have to wait until later this month. In the mean time, I’m trying to get back into shape, and would like to add a social aspect [...]

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What is it that lets you know you are alive? Are the elves in The Lord of the Rings really and truly “alive”? I’m not so sure.
Well, yesterday morning, I took the opportunity to go and prove to myself I am alive, in the reality sense: getting out there in the “real world” and doing [...]

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I visited the physio today. It seems I have been naughty (aka I’m human) by not sticking to both crutches. So I’m back on both, in order to avoid hurting this ankle of mine. X-Ray tomorrow, to check for another kind of injury (seeing as this is the third time). “Bad news” would have me [...]

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One week from now there is an orienteering race in Stellenbosch (Coetzenburg). I simply cannot let this opportunity to race without spending much time travelling, slip past. As such, I’ve started training again, yay! I’ve gone for two runs, the first on Friday night, in the dark, in the mud. Depending on your level of [...]

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This is probably the post a number of my friends and people that care about me have been waiting for. The rule for my life now is: no sport, no blogging, no setting up of a new theme, no socializing, no movies, no reading, no music, no eating, no sleeping, hell, no breathing even. The [...]

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Well, good health leads to life which leads to bad health. Silly statement, sure. Anyway, my calf seems to have healed. On Good Friday I did some tentative running/walking, with only minor pain. The next day, the front of my leg (shin) was more sore than the back, pointing out my over-compensation (trying to not [...]

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Probably good for my thesis that I am unable to participate, but Saturday’s WPASS March Madness just sounds like _so_ _much_ _fun_! It has orienteering and paddling, and some travelling from one to the other. Two of my currently favourite activities. So why can’t I take part? I have a lil’ tear in my Soleus [...]

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Another blog post about personal stuff. Bear with me. While I should make no promises about the dates of future posts, I can say I hope to get back to them this week. Reducing the expectations/hopes I had for my future posts a little - in terms of standards, well researched and good links - [...]

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The Mountain Bike Challenge this morning was great fun. My bike was still in a state of ill repair, so I did not “have access” to all my gears. It took me 3 hours 15 minutes, for 55km. It might be crazy of me to wish to achieve the same time on the race next [...]

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