Mar
30
Life without the Dunkin' D
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I put the blame soley on the coach. It is his fault that I am suffering from withdrawl symptoms. I am back home in Jo’burg, coughing on smog, trying stay calm when I am being pursued by angry taxi drivers and angrier BMW drivers. Life is tough here after being in what was near paradise […]
Mar
19
See evil, hear evil, do evil…
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Here in the Philippines there is one thing that I have come to appreciate,and that is the quality of the mangoes.My faithful roomate Wongstar recently went on a mission, by this I mean assisting with fitting prosthetic legs to amputees, which is wonderful work, but I sometimes think that she is a genius when it […]
Mar
4
Three strikes and you're out stupid!
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There is no punishment for stupidity but there is no replacement for ingenuity! Lessons in this sport are often learnt from training or racing but from unexpected experiences… Today was long bike ride day, which for me poses the question how to keep concentrating for that amount of time? Luckily, Scott and our new German […]
Mar
3
Team TBB training camp….brainwash camp?
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Coach Sutto is a brainwasher. This past week I am convinced that the coach has inflicted such pain and hardship on us, that our brains have just stopped working, period. The coach has washed our brains of all regular, mundane thinking which allows us to make progress in normal daily life. I have noticed a […]