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Heavily modified Caveman cast
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.
My favorite quote from the book was: “if you [...]

2008 XTERRA Worlds
The Caveman’s somewhat-secret XTERRA tips.
“Somewhat secret” because I borrowed (and modified) the article from my “All” (previous blog posts)  page.
• XTERRA is a strong mans race. An endurance event. Don’t let the seemingly short distances fool you. Forget about 400 repeats on the track and all-out sprints on [...]

Recent Caveman shaving accident…
Bony legs?
Veins like baby carrots?
Knife too sharp?

From iamspecialized.com

1992 at Double Standard (70.3) near Gordons Bay, South Africa
Since I’m running low on blogging ideas for my XTERRA Bama race report, what would you guys like to read about?
(if you’re not into setting up the password etc below to leave a reply, just post it on my Facebook page. Link on the sidebar)

Thanks to Felipe Bastos’ fiance for the pic.
3 wins in 3 XTERRAs.
29ers dominate: 1-5 in mens’ race, 1st in women’s.
Was one of the hottest races I have ever done.
Borrowed from the interweb: (time for bed here)
After being out -I wasnt “out”, I was just handicapped. C -with injuries for a good part of 2009, Conrad [...]

Picture and story borrowed from www.slowtwitch.com
Conrad Stoltz won his second straight XTERRA 2010 USA Championship race and Renate Bucher her second ever with definitive victories at the XTERRA South Central Championship at Waco, Texas today.
Stoltz followed his XTERRA West Championship win at Lake Las Vegas last month with a 2:02:21 finish for the 1.5 k [...]

With Specialized Triathlon team at Morgan Hill for product development and press training- more later. Or check my Facebook and Twitter

Las Vegas chocolate

Todd Wells, Burry Stander, Christoph Sauser

Burry and I enjoying Afrikaans

Amber enjoying the view

Its hard being the athlete and the photographer, and large cameras make people nervous here, so excuse the iPhone’s lack of an iFlash…
For picture titles and descriptions, follow the link to flickr
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

After 3 long months of hard work demolishing my house (while packing away some hard training) I spent a week on my parents farm to say good bye to them and Africa before hitting the US for some serious racing.
Because internet in Africa is slow, expensive and hard to get, this story [...]

Daniel Godfrey HUGO, we (your Specialized Team mates) are sitting here wondering; what had REALLY happened in New York?  Your New York blog post was cute and all, but
 
We want the REAL New York Story!
 

Two time Olympian, three time Xterra World Champion,(off road triathlon) 5 time All Africa Triathlon Champion and 5 time South African Triathlon Champion.
With this type of resume, I knew an interview with Conrad Stoltz would be hard to come by for my FISTPUMPFRIDAY column…then an email from Conrad popped into my inbox. [...]

This is my dads’ story about his recent bike trip through South Africa. As you can see, its in Afrikaans. This blog post is not aimed at the public, but rather a way for my dads family and friends to be able to read it. (He wanted to type it on a typewriter and mail [...]

Good stuff- read Dan’s report here
Amber was 4th in the Ladies’. More later…

Er, make that “was”…
Will Kelsay and his lovely lady, Shelby, visited South Africa for a few weeks. They spend a few days in Cape Town, then a few days in my house in Stellenbosch before tackling the Garden Route.
I’m busy renovating my house and of course,they got roped into some manual labour:
Will was super excited [...]

The pros are into pre season fad diets!
Macca urged the Twitter community to join him in his pre season cleansing diet comprising of juices for a week. Matt Lieto just started his Month of Salad…
Now I urge you to join me in my Month Of  Mopane Worm Cleansing Diet! Mopane worms are a delicacy in [...]

For my Christmas present I went from this:

to this:

Its great to be back home- spending Christmas with my parents, my moms extended family and my amazing grandma (and biggest fan) who turns 92 today.

This story made my day…
I play a bit of guitar myself, (on a $100 cheapy, and “play” used loosely) but being a frequently frustrated traveler with a $8000 Specialized bike in a box, I can really relate to this story: (feel free to substitute “guitar” with “bicycle” in the youtube video)
A musician named Dave Carroll [...]