@mattyza thanks dude, it was hectic indeed.
TMC Top 10 results – http://bit.ly/1l6vcS – totally stoked to be ranked with such top runners!
This year I started training in about March, I couldn’t really do much running for the first 70-80 days of the year because I tore ligaments in my foot on the evening of the 1st January 2009. I decided I wanted to do well in the Table Mountain Challenge 2009, which meant that I would have
Age Division: Male – 18-39
Montrail-CAPESTORM Cape Winter Trail Series
Thank you to Montrail-CAPESTORM Cape Winter Trail Series for organising an amazing series of events.
A ‘Trail Series’ consists of a number of trail races put together into a point scoring series. These individual trail races are held one week apart for a number of consecutive weeks. Each trail race consists of either a short (5-6km) or a medium length (10-13km), well marked trail route on a mixture of terrain from jeep track to single track. Each race is held at a different venue offering you the chance to run in a number of stunning locations.Scheduled Trail Series events in 2009 start with the Cape Summer Series in January, then the Gauteng Winter Trail Series May, the Cape Winter Trail Series in August and finishing up with the Gauteng Summer Series in October/November. 2010 will see the same Trail Series schedule.Experience the thrill of running in the magnificence of nature while testing your mind in a race environment!The Trail Series is proudly sponsored by Montrail performance footwear, Capestorm apparel, Powerade, Men’s Health & Black Diamond.A ‘Trail Series’ consists of a number of trail races put together into a point scoring series. These individual trail races are held one week apart for a number of consecutive weeks. Each trail race consists of either a short (5-6km) or a medium length (10-13km), well marked trail route on a mixture of terrain from jeep track to single track. Each race is held at a different venue offering you the chance to run in a number of stunning locations.
Scheduled Trail Series events in 2009 start with the Cape Summer Series in January, then the Gauteng Winter Trail Series May, the Cape Winter Trail Series in August and finishing up with the Gauteng Summer Series in October/November. 2010 will see the same Trail Series schedule.
Experience the thrill of running in the magnificence of nature while testing your mind in a race environment!
The Trail Series is proudly sponsored by Montrail performance footwear, Capestorm apparel, Powerade, Men’s Health & Black Diamond.
Race # 1 – Sun 26 July
- Venue: Durbanville Hills, Bloemendal Estate
- Distance: 13km
- Position Overall: 26
- Total Participants: 338
- Position Mens: 20
- Total Men: 136
- Time: 0:58:12
Race # 2 – Sun 2 August
- Venue: Kaapzicht Estate, Bottleray Hills
- Distance: 11km
- Position Overall: 19
- Total Participants: 316
- Position Mens: 15
- Total Men: 124
- Time: 0:50:03
Race # 3 – Sun 15 August
- Venue: Koggelberg mountains, Kleinmond
- Distance: 21km
- Note: Part of the Gravity Festival
- Position Overall: 11
- Total Participants: 151
- Position Mens: 11
- Total Men: 96
- Time: 01:36:08
Race # 4 – Wed 19 August
- Venue: Groot Constantia Estate - NIGHT RACE!
- Distance: 10km
- Position Overall: 27
- Total Participants: 262
- Position Mens: 19
- Total Men: 108
- Time: 0:44:04
Overall
- Race Number: 491
- Position Mens: 10
Table Mountain Challenge 2009
Table Mountain Challenge 2009 Event Details
Leg 1 – Kloof Nek to Block House, via Deer Park. 8km. Lots of up and down.
Leg 2 – Block House on Devil’s Peak, along Contour Path, to Constantia Neck – 10km.
Leg 3 – Constantia Neck through Orange Kloof (only on race day) almost to Suikerbossie. Climb Llandudno Corner, to Llandudno ravine and up to the Twelve Apostles path. Continue to Kasteelspoort, which you descend to the Pipe Track and finish at Kloof Nek – 17km.
Compulsory Gear Leg 3 – In the race, you must carry hydration (min 1 litre capacity), a rain coat or windbreaker (depending on the weather that day), nutrition (sarmie, potato, energy bar), cell phone (charged and water-proofed), map and you must know the route or run with someone that does. We check equipment at Constantia Neck AND the bottom of Llandudno Corner. No excuses, no gear, no run!
For all the info on trail running, visit http://www.trailrunning.co.za. These links are helpful
- Distance: 35km
- Position Overall: 9
- Total Solo Participants: 354
- Position Mens: 8
- Total Men: 267
- Time: 4:26:02
@noblehill about to drink wine… mmmm… wine…
This was an awesome weekend!
Position: 10
Total Competitors: 151
Time: 1:28:53
developing quite a bad addition to farmville
About 2-3 weeks back I started seeing people publish farmville results to their facebook profiles. At first I ignored it because I figured it was another crappy facebook app or game. The I started noticing more and more friends using it. Curiosity got the better of me….
I installed the application farmville – http://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/ – and tried it out. Within a couple of days I was hooked. Planting crops, harvesting trees, collecting farm animals and way more. I started conning my friends and wife into starting a farm in farmville… Before we know what hit us, we were all hopelessly hooked.
Try the game out, you might like it.
P.S. Be warned it is addictive and I take no responsibility for other peoples addictions….
New job opening at LightSpeed for a WordPress Systems Administrator, see ad on Gumtree – http://bit.ly/146FJA
Google Wave is a new product by Google. It lauches later in the year. The idea is that users communicate and collaborate on the web with a rich set of tools. A “wave” is equal parts conversation and document, where users can almost instantly communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
I watched 1 hour video on the topic that was extremely informative, if you are interested in innovative communication tools then watch this video:
Saving time on a daily basis has become a necessity…. I mentioned yesterday that I loaded a new theme on my blog called P2. P2 is a theme for WordPress that fits my fast paced lifestyle. P2 is revolutionary, it helps me reduce time spent blogging through frontend blogging. Posting your blog posts twitter style right from the homepage has helped me to blog at the speed of thought.
When I started with blogging in 2006 things were different, I had more time (less social networking) on my hands. Micro-blogging was not even a thought that had crossed my mind. Now-a-days I don’t have the time to write lengthy personal blog posts. I seem to use facebook the most, more than twitter at least…. I have integrated facebook and twitter into my blog now so that the systems cross post whenever I add new content. This helps save time.
Here’s a quick video tour of the best P2 Theme features:
Let me know what you think and if you have questions, then post a comment.
Started using P2 for my personal blog… Woooohooooo…. Here comes blogging at the speed of thought!
just loaded @tweetdeck, quite a good app, I see the value
set facebook username to facebook.com/ash.shaw, my full name was taken…. Strange dilemma, what do I call myself, happy with my decision!
went to WhackyWine Festival in robertson for the weekend, ran a half marathon yesterday and am now back in front of my PC working. 
has new custom built office desks & kitchen. Its been 8 months of construction, dust, noise and general madness. Yay!!! Super stoked results
went to geek dinner last night and had a blast!
is so ridiculously happy that Telkom fixed his ADSL line… Life sux without internet… I think I might have a problem…
just went for a run up to block house, these runs get easier and easier! Yay!
wishes he was a block of cheese some days… If only life were that cheesy ;-P
RT: @feedmymedia: LightSpeed looking for WordPress Wizards, any freelancers who can code & style themes, code widgets and/or code plugins.
is back from a casual / easy run up to the block house, legs are stiff after saturday’s heavy fast run. Need to build fitness slowly again.
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