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Winning All African ITU title at Club Mykono 1998<\/p>\n
Club Mykonons on the West coast of South Africa is 2 hrs north of Cape Town. It used to be a quiet, quaint rip off of\u00a0 the village Mykonos, Greece.\u00a0 The ocean always freezing- the swim was in the marina- for one of the turn buoys you had to go between the hulls of a huge catamaran.\u00a0 Once you go inland it gets very hot, glaringly bright, with the wind always pumping.<\/p>\n
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I raced here the 1st time when I was 16 and my last time was All African Champs 2004- part qualification for the Athens Olympics. I wish I had kept count of all the races I did there, certainly some epic battles and great memories. For many years there was a Naked swim mile at midnight. They’d send a hat around, people put money in and the one year I made twice as much money winning the Naked mile as I did winning SA Champs.<\/p>\n
Careful observers will note the “Conrad with puppy fat”, the crazy yellow zebra stripes Oakley Racing jackets, “trendy” Speedo race kit and the custom sewed sponsors logos. -Before fancy printing was available, I was\/am an expert seamer.<\/p>\n
“Mr Price” is a low budget clothing store, and there was a famous clause in the bonus schedule- if your hand covers part of the name, you are not eligible for your press bonus. Hence they were known as “Mr Pric. (Assuming your hand covers the “e”)<\/p>\n
Previous Club Mykonos triathletes I can think of: (add names and send pictures if you have any)<\/p>\n
Jan Frodeno<\/a>, (2008 Olympic Gold) Simon Lessing<\/a>,(5x ITU World Champion) Jan Rehula, (2000 Olympic Bronze) Tim Don<\/a>,(2006 ITU World Champ)\u00a0 Stuart Hayes, Lieuwe Boonstra, Kent Horner<\/a>, new era kid Dan Hugo<\/a> even the indomitable Irish gobshite Bobby Behan.<\/a><\/p>\n The old gaurd, when I was a junior:\u00a0 Kevin Richards, Jaco Loots,\u00a0 Keith Anderson, Andreas Lombardozzi, Trevor Meyer, Chad Gordon, Harald Zumpt, David Hyam, Cameron Jones, Mandy Dean, Hanele Steyn.<\/p>\n Bobby Behan battling the wind on the stark West Coast landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Winning All African ITU title at Club Mykono 1998 Club Mykonons on the West coast of South Africa is 2 hrs north of Cape Town. It used to be a quiet, quaint rip off of\u00a0 the village Mykonos, Greece.\u00a0 The ocean always freezing- the swim was in the marina- for one of the turn buoys […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,73,101],"tags":[183,194,1747,1749,332,354,1754,474,565,626,1779,635,662,667,672,704,789,808,1792,997,1022,1080,1105,1118,1154,1195,1203],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n![\"bobby.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.conradstoltz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bobby.jpg\")
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