Monster Burger Eat and Run World Champs -flashback from 2005

Created on 14 March 2015 Conrad

Caveman & Matt Lieto tackles the 1st leg of the World Monster Burger Eat and Run Champs

Pilot Butte Restaurant, Bend, Oregon, 2005

Each contestant has 30 minutes to eat:

1) The 18oz Pilot Butte Burger. (with all toppings) For the Civilized World – 18oz means 510.34873grams. That’s just the meat patty!
2) Medium fries
3) Large milkshake of your choice.

30 minutes after the start of the Eating Challenge, the Hill Run takes place. (From Pilot Butte Restaurant to top of Pilot Butte)

First on top of the Butte with all of the above mentioned items intact, wins. (This rule will be changed for next years contest, as

Perdeberg Winery Mountain Biking – Conrad Stoltz

Created on 04 March 2015 Conrad

Perdeberg Winery– known as “The Home of Chenin Blanc” and for producing 33 million litres of wine per year, is now also offering scenic, family friendly mountain biking routes for young and old.

This Saturday’s Perdeberg MTB Funride, in conjunction with the Ommiberg Festival is hosted by trail legends Dirtopia. The event features family friendly* 16km and 36km routes. *”Family friendly” refers to easy, fun to ride dirt roads with maybe a few sandy patches. No death defying obstacles and no “Wish-your-mommy-is-here-climbs.” Any mountain bike will do.

A certain “Caveman” will do the prize giving…

Like is says in the flyer- this is a wine festival– once you’ve put your bike away, there’s wine tasting- including a traditional straight-from-the-tank tasting with onion tart pairing. There will also be live bands, food stalls, a petting zoo for kids and a lively Best/Most unique dressed contest – where you can win a 3L bottle wine. Dress theme: Red Red Wine…

Make sure to meet the lively Paleo eating, winery mascot Merlot the Zebra. What a character! In his own words: “I am a LEAN,

Caveman tries to remember Durban Ultra Triathlon 1994 #ThrowbackThursday

Created on 19 February 2015 Conrad

The year was 1994. In a time before the internets. The year Apartheid crumbled. The year I had “Mark Allen hair” Nowadays its called a mullet.

“Ironman” was nothing but one race on a more-distant-than-the-moon volcanic island full of “Scotts” or, closer to home, “Ironman” was a Boere style triathlon: 20km K1 paddle, 120k bike, run around Harties- dominated by hard hard men with tough names like Rockley and Bester.

To us, the “Durban Ultra” was the pinnacle of endurance triathlon. 4k ocean swim with sometimes huge swell,

Monster Burger Eat and Run World Champs -flashback from 2005

Perdeberg Winery Mountain Biking – Conrad Stoltz

Caveman tries to remember Durban Ultra Triathlon 1994 #ThrowbackThursday

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