Archive for April, 2008

Caveman’s New Potatoes with garlic and honey

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Ingredients:
Dig up a few handfuls of New Potatoes from the vegetable patch. (about one double handful per hungry cave-person.)

Libby Burrell. Coach extraordinaire.

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

I just added my first page! All by myself. Of course it is about my coach Libby Burrell. It is not finished yet, but go to”pages” click, and take a peek.

A story of inspiration by South Africa’s #1 female triathlete, Mari Rabie…

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Here is a short story by Mari Rabie, South Africa’s great hope for the Beijing Olympics. Visit her excellent blog at MariRabie.com.
I was quite unaware of the inspiration, but am very touched by this story…

How to make a mountain bike mud guard in 3 minutes.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Conrad’s hot tip for wet weather racing: How to keep sand & mud out of your eyes by making a low tech, high performance mud guard from a used soft drink bottle:

XTERRA South Africa 2008

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

“Its this way around the buoy, right?” Dan Hugo and I looking at the 1500m swim course seconds before the start of XTERRA South Africa 2008.

The form is good. Quality run on the beach.

Friday, April 18th, 2008

On the 7 hr drive back to Stellenbosch after Ironman South Africa, we stopped at Klein Brak river mouth so I could do my last quality run before XTERRA South Africa this weekend. The sun was setting, the sea was thundering unhappily, and Amber sat on the beach, resting her Ironman legs and poking at [...]

Soul riding

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

One of the many great things I got to do while in PE for Ambers Ironman was exploring the South Africa East coast by mountain bike. Actually it was training, (1h30 ride with 8×20second sprints) but I played with the location a bit and what came out was this amazing ride from Schoenmaakerskop [...]

Ironman South Africa 2008

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Its late tuesday night, and Amber and I just got back from Ironman South Africa. What a race. What a weekend. What great friends we made.
Amber PRed her swim, bike and run. 13th woman out the swim, she rode the 2nd fastest split, and was off the bike 3rd woman overall, finished 8th and won [...]

Who needs Chuck Norris when you have Conrad Stoltz?!

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

I found this email from a fan in the archives and it brought a smile on my face. Thanks Kevin!
“Dude, you are one tough nut. Get better soon. We here in Chicago have all decided you are even way tougher than our icon, Chuck Norris, thus some important facts – see below.
Be good. - [...]

Oakley Radar ad

Friday, April 4th, 2008

My longest standing sponsor. 14 Years. Wow, I read this article and am really proud!
Click on the link- it’s a good one:
oakley.com/visionaries/conrad_stoltz