My bags are packed and I’m ready to go… my last day in Stellenbosch for 2009. Scary thought. I’m leaving for Durban in the morning for the start of the Sani2C mountain bike race.Its probably the most stage race I have done in South Africa. I did the Cape Epic in 2005 and 2006 with [...]
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GU Signs Conrad Stoltz
New Energy for “Caveman” and MelRad Racing Team
February 18, 2009, Berkeley, CA – GU Energy Labs is proud to announce that the best male off-road triathlete in history, Conrad Stoltz - known to many as the Caveman - has selected GU as his exclusive sports nutrition supplier. [...]
Falke socks is basically the South African version of Balega socks. (USA) Or vice versa?! Anyway, thay are the best out there in terms of quality. Seamless toe boxes, deep heels, 1st class yarn. Cool company too.
And why I’m not racing Xterra Temecula coming Sunday(2005):
It all happened on a sunny afternoon about 6 weeks ago. As usual, I played my own little “carry all the groceries in one trip” game. A 15 kilogram bag of potatoes (Caveman staple diet) obscured my view of the trail leading up to my cave, but [...]
This I wrote for the 2002 Lifetime Fitness Triathlon brochure. They asked us to “talk trash”- a new experience to me, so I let loose and talked trash!
In my 15 years in triathlon I’ve learnt a few lessons:
One is: THE MORE GEAR YOU HAVE, THE FASTER YOU GO. Ok, I have TONS of gear. The [...]
Life on the road. By Conrad Stoltz
France, 1996.
Triathlon heaven, those years. I was the youngest of a handful of South Africans racing for a village called Cahors in the Sud Ouest of France. Every weekend we’d travel to races, chasing money, glory and adventure.
Getting to races was tricky, and usually we’d hitch rides with French [...]
My 2005 off season reading was Brian Lopes’ book on mountain biking skills. As a fairly competent mountain biker, I was amazed at how much there is still to learn about the art of making an off road bicycle go fast.
Benita De Witt (l) and Jan Hendrik trying to make the Caveman look presentable. (I just got back from a 9hr tyre testing day- hence the cycling kit and stupid tan/dirt line)
Benita de Witt has been my physiotherapist in South Africa for the past 12 years. Since then, I havent had a single sports injury. [...]
Burry Stander doing rolling resistance testing on the rollers. He rode at 25km/h and at 35km/h with about 20 different tires and measured the wattage needed to hold those speeds for each tire. On the right (reading the power tap numbers) is Benno Willeit, our Specialized mechanic, and on the left is Tire Specialist Frank [...]
Here is a screen shot of Nikola Tosic, (on the right) “Cooling or dieing” and the Caveman blog he made. I posted the screen shot because I couldn’t figure out how to get the pic of him being cool (or dieing?). It turns out to be quite an interesting touch, I think. Sort of “a [...]
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