I have completed the Soweto Marathon, a major south African race. The result I have a lot of training still left to do.
It started really nicely, I completed the 21 in about 2:15, so my time was in line for me to qualify for the big ultras. Sadly there was no water between kms 21 and 33, dehydration was experienced quite forcibly. It was terrible but at least I completed, time 5:20, and I know the pain and effort required to complete races of this magnitude.
Next race I hope to qualify with is the Pretoria marathon, I hope I can succeed.
The thing is that after such a bad race, my motivation has been knocked abit, and lovely wife tries her best to support me, but I have high demands of myself, so inevitably I feel abit depressed.
Next step I will need to train much harder, punish ourselves so that we can punish the race.
join a club, people with like minded goals can definitely help. Invest in water bladder so I have water during my training. Investigate the effect of gu and other carbohydrate gels on my energy levels.
If my Zak was not there to comfort me and drive me back home I could have been in worse off condition than the way I finished. She took really good care of me, and organised me ice cream and mochachoes, yeah :)
With her at my side I know I will be successful. What a great support structure I have.
My former training partner has pulled out of the challenge of completing the 2 oceans and comrades. He gave up because he did not want to get seriously injured. good luck to him and I hope he does eventually attempt a big race.
On another note Next year I am coming with a vengeance for the Soweto marathon, BEWARE!
Just a side note, I completed a marathon 1 yr and 7 months since I got knocked by a car. Yes you guessed it knocked by a car and I was on crutches for 3 months. I might ellaborate in the future.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
the half
Since my last post, I have done a 21.1 km race, a half marathon. This race is known as the woodlands boulevard enduro race on the 16th October 2010.
Lesson number 1 beware of races that are sponsored by groups with the name enduro. The 1st 2/3 kms is a uphill and we did this portion twice and beyond that there were about 12 hills on the course. It was a cranker. That being said my time was good, infact pleasant to me, I did the race in 2h 15min.
At every race I learn something new, something about myself, and in this race it was my mental strength, the ability to overcome pain and finish well. How i handle myself with a cold start.
How my body handles chaffing(a funny but very painful reality)
In the end I enjoyed the race, and that is what it comes down to, you will only succeed when you are having fun.
My training partner WMS has bought the book the lore of running, this is like the holy book of running and WMS being the responsible one is taking things to 1st principles and I am adding to my knowledge base with his help. In the future we will do some pretty awesome races!
Lesson number 1 beware of races that are sponsored by groups with the name enduro. The 1st 2/3 kms is a uphill and we did this portion twice and beyond that there were about 12 hills on the course. It was a cranker. That being said my time was good, infact pleasant to me, I did the race in 2h 15min.
At every race I learn something new, something about myself, and in this race it was my mental strength, the ability to overcome pain and finish well. How i handle myself with a cold start.
How my body handles chaffing(a funny but very painful reality)
In the end I enjoyed the race, and that is what it comes down to, you will only succeed when you are having fun.
My training partner WMS has bought the book the lore of running, this is like the holy book of running and WMS being the responsible one is taking things to 1st principles and I am adding to my knowledge base with his help. In the future we will do some pretty awesome races!
Monday, October 11, 2010
exciting times
I've completed 2 races since my last post, a 15km race in Britz and the chamberlain 10km race in pretoria.
After 3 races the one thing I really appreciated about the race in britz is that the Field was really small compared to the 2 races in Pretoria. The way the club members interacted and encouraged each other, has got me thinking of joining a running club.
The draw back of the britz race was that is started at 7am, so it was abit of a scorcher. I haven't seen heat lumps on myself like that in a while. I got trinkets, that is always the fun part trinkets, although I don't need such stuff it is cool. I need to either find my "cheap-eel-ler" watch or buy a new one. I have grown really attached to my watch, was only a R100 but I used it for the midmar mile and many other strenuous hardcore activities......for a watch. so I would be sad to lose it. The last couple of statements are a tad fluffy.
The chamberlain 10km race, eish the field was large, and I missed to see what time I had finished, but my trinket was different from the other people's trinkets who came in after an hour, so I skeem my time ws less than an hour, however it seems abit weird for me to shave of so much time of my 10kay, which makes me wonder if the race was really 10 km. either way I am pleased.
My weight/Body fat/measurement stats have remained the same which is a good thing, although slightly altered, seems to indicate that I am gaining some muscle.
Next up, half marathon, abit excited and nervous at the same time. hopefully I do well. Time to train like mad hard!
After 3 races the one thing I really appreciated about the race in britz is that the Field was really small compared to the 2 races in Pretoria. The way the club members interacted and encouraged each other, has got me thinking of joining a running club.
The draw back of the britz race was that is started at 7am, so it was abit of a scorcher. I haven't seen heat lumps on myself like that in a while. I got trinkets, that is always the fun part trinkets, although I don't need such stuff it is cool. I need to either find my "cheap-eel-ler" watch or buy a new one. I have grown really attached to my watch, was only a R100 but I used it for the midmar mile and many other strenuous hardcore activities......for a watch. so I would be sad to lose it. The last couple of statements are a tad fluffy.
The chamberlain 10km race, eish the field was large, and I missed to see what time I had finished, but my trinket was different from the other people's trinkets who came in after an hour, so I skeem my time ws less than an hour, however it seems abit weird for me to shave of so much time of my 10kay, which makes me wonder if the race was really 10 km. either way I am pleased.
My weight/Body fat/measurement stats have remained the same which is a good thing, although slightly altered, seems to indicate that I am gaining some muscle.
Next up, half marathon, abit excited and nervous at the same time. hopefully I do well. Time to train like mad hard!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
1st UP
As a young ambitious person, it is very easy to scoff at the notion of experience, and different avenues that experience can help you in. Experience is not necessarily going through a mistake and learning from it, it is also learning from other people and acknowledging and respecting their experience, and gaining an edge in that regard. Obviously we are thinking people and should take note and acknowledge the advice and make a judgement call on the in respect of your personal situation.
So how does the opening paragraph tie in with toady's blog, and incidentally the title as well,......here is how, Last weekend I completed my 1st race. It was the CSIR 10km race. I finished in a time of 1 hr and 7 mins, not a time I am pleased with because my rate is 8.95km/h. I would prefer a rate of 10km/h.
From what I understand the CSIR 10kay is rather difficult race and the time coupled with it being my 1st race ever is a pretty good thing. The thing that i learnt from the race was that the start is very hectic, with everybody moving along you are basically walking the start, and this frustrated me to no end, after about the 1km, I got to settle into my pace and the positive thing is that I probably did a rate greater than my final time indicated considering the slowness of the start. Towards the end of the race I really began enjoying other peoples company and eventually didn't want the race to end.
I had set aside 1 day to train hills (experince from other long distance runners), the result of that was that on race day I was making up quite abit on the other people when it came to the hill sections. My custom suited running shoes felt like I was running on air, I in fact paid less for custom quality pair of running shoes than if I had to go to the more reknowned sport stores. (good shoes and visiting a store specilaising in running shoes is learning expeince gained from other long distance runners)
The most important thing that I learnt was to control my temper, just to chill and enjoy the run. I am now looking forward to my next race.
I have gone abit ape and entered quite a few races but all this is to complete a marathon in November......5 weeks time, hectic!
So how does the opening paragraph tie in with toady's blog, and incidentally the title as well,......here is how, Last weekend I completed my 1st race. It was the CSIR 10km race. I finished in a time of 1 hr and 7 mins, not a time I am pleased with because my rate is 8.95km/h. I would prefer a rate of 10km/h.
From what I understand the CSIR 10kay is rather difficult race and the time coupled with it being my 1st race ever is a pretty good thing. The thing that i learnt from the race was that the start is very hectic, with everybody moving along you are basically walking the start, and this frustrated me to no end, after about the 1km, I got to settle into my pace and the positive thing is that I probably did a rate greater than my final time indicated considering the slowness of the start. Towards the end of the race I really began enjoying other peoples company and eventually didn't want the race to end.
I had set aside 1 day to train hills (experince from other long distance runners), the result of that was that on race day I was making up quite abit on the other people when it came to the hill sections. My custom suited running shoes felt like I was running on air, I in fact paid less for custom quality pair of running shoes than if I had to go to the more reknowned sport stores. (good shoes and visiting a store specilaising in running shoes is learning expeince gained from other long distance runners)
The most important thing that I learnt was to control my temper, just to chill and enjoy the run. I am now looking forward to my next race.
I have gone abit ape and entered quite a few races but all this is to complete a marathon in November......5 weeks time, hectic!
Monday, September 13, 2010
breaking it down
well I lied, I am blogging after about a week, so what are my stats, it is week 10!
body weight: 77kg
body fat percentage: 20.65
waist measurement, 97cm
So since the start of this quest, I have lost 7 kgs, in 8 weeks and I have not eaten anything fried and just 1 sprite zero.....So the bottom line is there is progress.
When some one annoys me, just to show off I tell them that I lost 7 kgs(and as a secret inside joke, to expose their stupidity and ignorance), but its not as simple or rosey as that. off the 7 kgs only 5 kgs is fat, so that means that 2 kgs is a combination of muscle and water loss. So essentially what has happened is that my already slow metabolism has slowed even more because I have lost about 2 kgs of muscle (approximate). depressing :(
hopefully by my next measure I could drop about 1kg of fat but increase muscle mass. Back to hitting the weights!
Personally I would have preferred to have lost approximately 4 kgs after 8 weeks.
A few weeks ago, one of my friends was telling me that his body core temperature is 0.4 degrees lower than a normal human. I scoffed (secretly) at that bit of fact cause unless you are Lewis Gordon Pugh, how the F(expletive) are you going to determine that fact. I came across this interview of Mr Pugh, and he mentioned how Dr Noakes commented and coined the phrase "something" thermogenisis(or something funky like that), where essentially Pugh can raise his core temp in anticipation of swimming in really cold environments. He mentioned that before he swam doctor Noakes stuck a thermometer in his tush..............................huh WHAT!, yeah I wrote correctly he stuck a thermometer baby style, a way that gents of cape town can appreciate!
SO I wonder how did my friend determine his body core temperature, a very scary thought indeed!
I was at Eid namaaz, on friday and I was on my way to greet someone when I saw 2 off 6 year old kids, the one says to the other, "hey, titty come here, titty come here, here titty", to see 2 kids as young as that talking in that manner, on such a important religious day, after such an important month, just outside the musjid about 30mins after eid namaaz is initially hilarious..............however is this the state of the youth today(now I sound old), abit scary. Kids like this grow up to be brainless adults who indulge in dumb idol talk and carry on like cardboard gangsters without an original thought, or backbone, they become bullies.....like a couple of my dumb ass cousins.....the children of mordoor!
my wife has really awesome pretty hair and long, and so she was hitting the pantene where move they swirl their head and the hair follows, and because i am taller I can see the TV effect live. However it didn't quite come out, so instead of my wife trying again, I explained to her why it was impossible for, cause she was short and therefore could not create enough torque on the very light hair strands to create the desired motion. Now I am convinced I am a dork and engineer (in the cliched sense) and I love it. However my wife proved me wrong and did it properly the on he next attempt.
Don't i feel stupid, not at all, she properly relied on her muscle strenght to increase her centripetal force and create the effect (my wife does train weights after all, and is not as weak as move of my male friends) or she is an anomaly, that would make her NEO and me gay........nope nope it is her strenght training that gave her ability to turn on a pantene moment (moment hahahaha, get it, force times distance equals moment, pantene hair movement requires a moment, hahahaha)..........what a dork!
body weight: 77kg
body fat percentage: 20.65
waist measurement, 97cm
So since the start of this quest, I have lost 7 kgs, in 8 weeks and I have not eaten anything fried and just 1 sprite zero.....So the bottom line is there is progress.
When some one annoys me, just to show off I tell them that I lost 7 kgs(and as a secret inside joke, to expose their stupidity and ignorance), but its not as simple or rosey as that. off the 7 kgs only 5 kgs is fat, so that means that 2 kgs is a combination of muscle and water loss. So essentially what has happened is that my already slow metabolism has slowed even more because I have lost about 2 kgs of muscle (approximate). depressing :(
hopefully by my next measure I could drop about 1kg of fat but increase muscle mass. Back to hitting the weights!
Personally I would have preferred to have lost approximately 4 kgs after 8 weeks.
A few weeks ago, one of my friends was telling me that his body core temperature is 0.4 degrees lower than a normal human. I scoffed (secretly) at that bit of fact cause unless you are Lewis Gordon Pugh, how the F(expletive) are you going to determine that fact. I came across this interview of Mr Pugh, and he mentioned how Dr Noakes commented and coined the phrase "something" thermogenisis(or something funky like that), where essentially Pugh can raise his core temp in anticipation of swimming in really cold environments. He mentioned that before he swam doctor Noakes stuck a thermometer in his tush..............................huh WHAT!, yeah I wrote correctly he stuck a thermometer baby style, a way that gents of cape town can appreciate!
SO I wonder how did my friend determine his body core temperature, a very scary thought indeed!
I was at Eid namaaz, on friday and I was on my way to greet someone when I saw 2 off 6 year old kids, the one says to the other, "hey, titty come here, titty come here, here titty", to see 2 kids as young as that talking in that manner, on such a important religious day, after such an important month, just outside the musjid about 30mins after eid namaaz is initially hilarious..............however is this the state of the youth today(now I sound old), abit scary. Kids like this grow up to be brainless adults who indulge in dumb idol talk and carry on like cardboard gangsters without an original thought, or backbone, they become bullies.....like a couple of my dumb ass cousins.....the children of mordoor!
my wife has really awesome pretty hair and long, and so she was hitting the pantene where move they swirl their head and the hair follows, and because i am taller I can see the TV effect live. However it didn't quite come out, so instead of my wife trying again, I explained to her why it was impossible for, cause she was short and therefore could not create enough torque on the very light hair strands to create the desired motion. Now I am convinced I am a dork and engineer (in the cliched sense) and I love it. However my wife proved me wrong and did it properly the on he next attempt.
Don't i feel stupid, not at all, she properly relied on her muscle strenght to increase her centripetal force and create the effect (my wife does train weights after all, and is not as weak as move of my male friends) or she is an anomaly, that would make her NEO and me gay........nope nope it is her strenght training that gave her ability to turn on a pantene moment (moment hahahaha, get it, force times distance equals moment, pantene hair movement requires a moment, hahahaha)..........what a dork!
Friday, September 3, 2010
official!
You might have noticed that this update to the blog is abit late compared with my usual time slot. The reason being that the online comrades entries opened on the 1st of September, and I entered officially, well baring any bureaucratic BS. There is no turning back. "feel the rhythm feel the ride get on up its push cart time, coooool runnings" not quite but at the same time quite appropriate.
Well its the end of week 8 of my training, and in total I have missed 1 week of training, due to various ailments, but I feel good. From a religious stand point i'm sad that the month of ramadaan is going, but from a training point of view it has been challenging. I now plan on getting my self new running shoes and joining a running club, need to up the ante!
I have received 5 comments in total, on how much weight I have lost. As I have mentioned before its pleasing but not the aim of my training, just a nice by product. However you know your progress is good, when a conversation with good frineds start with "slms, hey what you been smoking, you lost quite abit there!" Before people question what I lost, they are refering to weight(as per theme of this paragraph) and not my junior head, because they are not males of the feminine variety.
my training partner, WMS, has hit abit of a snag with his training in that he has injured his knee (one of the 2) and as expected his inner bringer of doom, the stoic voice of reason, the voice of the responsible one came, no rained down, from.............................. the heavens, NO! his cubicle, that with the injury he has lost abit of training time and he is not sure if he can make the Bela Bela marathon!!! Well i've been delaying in agreeing with him but I can see his point and concern, however when we start hitting some road work together we will find out how serious or legit his concerns are. I pray that we get though this, the set up is like playing an awesome game but you cannot get past level 4 of 10...........epic fail.
I enjoy listening to talk radio 702, cause I am not a music fan and I enjoy reading websites iol,news 24, time and mma junkie, the last one doesn't quite fit the profile but it is enjoyable. If I have learn t any thing from the news is that there is 2 sides to every story. The truth is important in my eyes, if somebody made a mistake, so what as long as they take responsibility and do the right thing the next time, or learn from it.
I have no idea why people have the constant need to criticize government, constructive criticism is good but attacking someone personally is just stupid and doesn't benefit anyone. like public servants need more money, maybe we would have more if the president had less family, then the noob signs the comment as anonymous, that is cowardice! If you have an opinion, air it but "don't hide in your in your room and instruct some else to do the dirty work", take the RESPONSIBILITY for your opinions and actions. I think every country in the world has its own problems and I believe beyond a shadow of a doubt South Africa is one of the best countries to stay its simply awesome.
Monday is start of week 9 and its measurement time again. I am rather excited and I skeem i might have broken into the 70's weight wise. Expect my next addition at the same time slot.
Oh I made the cardinal sin of announcing "die bulls sal nie wen nie", in front of couple of bulls supporters,they are going to play the sharks(my team) this week end, this is a dangerous and often fatal task at the best of times (when they are sober).......but when they are drunk....eish......all i can say is thank god I have been training at running long distances. Its like when the old guy tied a piece of meat to Jean claude van damme(remember him) and the dogs started chasing him and he started running faster, if he had done what I had done as part of his training I don't think there would have been a kickboxer 2 to whatever. now that could have been a mercy SA could have bestowed on the rest of world......kickboxer 1(the good one) ONLY.......maybe that plan might be a flawed idea cause Van Damme would have been terminated(literally) and the directors would have resorted to that B grade guy from Kickboxer 2 onwards and the crappy genre would have began earlier. Tom Po would have kicked crappy Van Damme very very hard! bull supporter hard.
Well its the end of week 8 of my training, and in total I have missed 1 week of training, due to various ailments, but I feel good. From a religious stand point i'm sad that the month of ramadaan is going, but from a training point of view it has been challenging. I now plan on getting my self new running shoes and joining a running club, need to up the ante!
I have received 5 comments in total, on how much weight I have lost. As I have mentioned before its pleasing but not the aim of my training, just a nice by product. However you know your progress is good, when a conversation with good frineds start with "slms, hey what you been smoking, you lost quite abit there!" Before people question what I lost, they are refering to weight(as per theme of this paragraph) and not my junior head, because they are not males of the feminine variety.
my training partner, WMS, has hit abit of a snag with his training in that he has injured his knee (one of the 2) and as expected his inner bringer of doom, the stoic voice of reason, the voice of the responsible one came, no rained down, from.............................. the heavens, NO! his cubicle, that with the injury he has lost abit of training time and he is not sure if he can make the Bela Bela marathon!!! Well i've been delaying in agreeing with him but I can see his point and concern, however when we start hitting some road work together we will find out how serious or legit his concerns are. I pray that we get though this, the set up is like playing an awesome game but you cannot get past level 4 of 10...........epic fail.
I enjoy listening to talk radio 702, cause I am not a music fan and I enjoy reading websites iol,news 24, time and mma junkie, the last one doesn't quite fit the profile but it is enjoyable. If I have learn t any thing from the news is that there is 2 sides to every story. The truth is important in my eyes, if somebody made a mistake, so what as long as they take responsibility and do the right thing the next time, or learn from it.
I have no idea why people have the constant need to criticize government, constructive criticism is good but attacking someone personally is just stupid and doesn't benefit anyone. like public servants need more money, maybe we would have more if the president had less family, then the noob signs the comment as anonymous, that is cowardice! If you have an opinion, air it but "don't hide in your in your room and instruct some else to do the dirty work", take the RESPONSIBILITY for your opinions and actions. I think every country in the world has its own problems and I believe beyond a shadow of a doubt South Africa is one of the best countries to stay its simply awesome.
Monday is start of week 9 and its measurement time again. I am rather excited and I skeem i might have broken into the 70's weight wise. Expect my next addition at the same time slot.
Oh I made the cardinal sin of announcing "die bulls sal nie wen nie", in front of couple of bulls supporters,they are going to play the sharks(my team) this week end, this is a dangerous and often fatal task at the best of times (when they are sober).......but when they are drunk....eish......all i can say is thank god I have been training at running long distances. Its like when the old guy tied a piece of meat to Jean claude van damme(remember him) and the dogs started chasing him and he started running faster, if he had done what I had done as part of his training I don't think there would have been a kickboxer 2 to whatever. now that could have been a mercy SA could have bestowed on the rest of world......kickboxer 1(the good one) ONLY.......maybe that plan might be a flawed idea cause Van Damme would have been terminated(literally) and the directors would have resorted to that B grade guy from Kickboxer 2 onwards and the crappy genre would have began earlier. Tom Po would have kicked crappy Van Damme very very hard! bull supporter hard.
Monday, August 23, 2010
failings
the 1st kinks in my armour have shown itself, fortunately they are physical and not mental. I took wednesday training session off because my hammie was not feeling good and took saturday and will take today off because i've picked up a cold. heavy cough, major weakness and general nasal concerns. I did train on friday evening and it went rather well.
WMS and myself have outlined the Bela Bela marathon for a qualifying race, its not going to be easy. the 2nd half of the race is a kranker(all hill work), gonna be interesting.we will succeed!!
my eating has gone fairly well, nothing bad but I did slightly indulge on on thursday night. After a hard day on site and fasting a good 20 minutes later because the sun takes longer to set at altitude, I was the guest of my dear good friends the brothers FEK(&wife) and SEK(&wife) at SEK's abode. The chicken macaroni was awesome(I was accused of paying fake lipservice to the graze but it was seriously awesome) and a neat dessert(which whether was bought or home made, doesn't matter cause it was good), I did indulge abit but after doing my stats analysis was not too bad. FA the swaar of SEKandFEK was also present, that dude is F(expletive)ing unique, the way he talks, interacts and just general mannerisms, i don't mean in a bad way but a refreshingly unique way.
I have refined my goals wrt the marathons, after the 2 oceans marathon, I am going to chow a Fish and chips at hout bay, yes it is fried and yes I will chow it cause I would have earned it. then post comrades marathon I will crack a half (maybe whole) mutton bunny, yeah. Now those goals make perfect sense to me.
Well today i intend bringing a term to the forefront, brainstorming is when you have a problem and think major hard to come up with the solution, the process where you leave no stone unturned(mentally). Shit storming is when you leave no stone unturned in terms of talk or thought which is absolute shit (or tjol, as per bolg's title). the best shit storming sessions are when you are with good friends and where we just talk alot of tjol, especially at a meal or around a quality hookah.
U guessed it, there was a quality tjol session going down at SEK's abode on thursday night, the one item that was discussed and that I will share is that have I switched allegiances to the blue bulls, the short answer NO. If you had to go to fortress Loftess, those bulls supporters are on another level, like religion, paint house blue hire a bull level, infact they are so mad and crazy that they are on the same level as tik user, in the high tik-age(F(expletive)ing crazy), I will not,never,nada show my true colours which are black. I go so far as to say my blood is blue BUT my heart is black(under my breathe offcourse).
some might say i am a coward, but why get all serious and aggressive with someone just because we don't support the same team, defn not worth a hiding(receiving or handing one out).
so how does this madness help me, the best way I can ensure the protection of my kitties is too buy them little blue bull jerseys, the end result they will be both cute and safe!!! because no one and not even a taxi will harm a bulls supporter(human or otherwise) in Pretoria.
WMS and myself have outlined the Bela Bela marathon for a qualifying race, its not going to be easy. the 2nd half of the race is a kranker(all hill work), gonna be interesting.we will succeed!!
my eating has gone fairly well, nothing bad but I did slightly indulge on on thursday night. After a hard day on site and fasting a good 20 minutes later because the sun takes longer to set at altitude, I was the guest of my dear good friends the brothers FEK(&wife) and SEK(&wife) at SEK's abode. The chicken macaroni was awesome(I was accused of paying fake lipservice to the graze but it was seriously awesome) and a neat dessert(which whether was bought or home made, doesn't matter cause it was good), I did indulge abit but after doing my stats analysis was not too bad. FA the swaar of SEKandFEK was also present, that dude is F(expletive)ing unique, the way he talks, interacts and just general mannerisms, i don't mean in a bad way but a refreshingly unique way.
I have refined my goals wrt the marathons, after the 2 oceans marathon, I am going to chow a Fish and chips at hout bay, yes it is fried and yes I will chow it cause I would have earned it. then post comrades marathon I will crack a half (maybe whole) mutton bunny, yeah. Now those goals make perfect sense to me.
Well today i intend bringing a term to the forefront, brainstorming is when you have a problem and think major hard to come up with the solution, the process where you leave no stone unturned(mentally). Shit storming is when you leave no stone unturned in terms of talk or thought which is absolute shit (or tjol, as per bolg's title). the best shit storming sessions are when you are with good friends and where we just talk alot of tjol, especially at a meal or around a quality hookah.
U guessed it, there was a quality tjol session going down at SEK's abode on thursday night, the one item that was discussed and that I will share is that have I switched allegiances to the blue bulls, the short answer NO. If you had to go to fortress Loftess, those bulls supporters are on another level, like religion, paint house blue hire a bull level, infact they are so mad and crazy that they are on the same level as tik user, in the high tik-age(F(expletive)ing crazy), I will not,never,nada show my true colours which are black. I go so far as to say my blood is blue BUT my heart is black(under my breathe offcourse).
some might say i am a coward, but why get all serious and aggressive with someone just because we don't support the same team, defn not worth a hiding(receiving or handing one out).
so how does this madness help me, the best way I can ensure the protection of my kitties is too buy them little blue bull jerseys, the end result they will be both cute and safe!!! because no one and not even a taxi will harm a bulls supporter(human or otherwise) in Pretoria.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
inner strength
As a muslim, i'm into the most holy of months, Ramadaan, and due to the requirements, its very easy to just sit back and say because of the tests of this month I wouldn't train or train less, hell no, my training is continuing full steam ahead, true the training times have adjusted but I am hitting the 2nd phase of my training with just as much vigour. Initial readings show that I might have already lost quite abit of muscle, but no grief.
I had an awesome 1st road run on saturday, 8.2 km in 49 min, average speed of 10.05 km/h.....that is such an exciting time. And still the training is going strong, WMS and myself have decided to gun a marathon in November and we have settled on the Bela Bela marathon......."no pain no gain" and I am excited as anything
the biggest test to my lifestyle change was brought about yesterday when Ocean Basket(OB) had their birthday special, R9.99 for a fish and chips.......It was soo soo hard not to go down the road and have a small FRIED chow but I stayed away, and I feel better for it.....my inner strength prevailed!
I was going to catch a bus one day and took a very popular company brand for a trip to cape town, while waiting for the bus to stop I noticed that the waiting area looked remarkably like an airport layout, ticketing area, comfortable waiting area, announcements for the buses to be boarded, baggage areas, lady who ensures that you are on the right bus, checks that you have the appropriate ticket, shows you to the correct seat and at the end of the process you are even left with a ticket stub. It can try to seem like an airport, with all the frills but at the end of the day you still get onto a bus and you have to struggle for a 24 hours bus ride in short it feels cheap. That is exactly how I feel about RICA, the process that you have to put a face with detail to your cell phone Sim card. It tries to be all big powerful and important like, the bank equivalent, FICA but it just small sad excuse, all this is just a feeling. they should have called it something else.
You know you getting old when you read something and you have to look up the meaning of words, that's how I felt when I read my 1st scientific paper since varsity "the effects of pulse power on water treatment of hard water", eish once I got around the words the paper was fairly simple to understand, but what a shock very hobbit like intimidation.
"you can take a horse to water but you cannot make it drink" we all know the meaning but my solution to that saying is take a cat to water instead. Its always entertaining for me to pick up my kitties and drop them off by a puddle of water and they just drink, maybe its their inner stray. the inner stray is also responsible for the appetite, they eat anything and everything (obviously of a protein nature). The positive thing about the "inner stray" is that they are street wise and don't seem to be in danger of getting knocked by a car.IA
I think the reason cops turn to crime is that its soo difficult to remain on the straight and narrow, let me elaborate, a cops belt with a gazillion gadgets. If that cop belt was more simplified then a cop would be able to complete their duties quickly and efficiently. I was standing in a queue behind a cop and noticed the gadgets, Batman has F(expletive) all on them, this dude had a gun, walkie talkie, cell phone, touch, leatherman, pens, pencils, writing paper, small box I assume for bullets and cuffs. now imagine at that moment, a dude breaks into a car, he has to run after the dude catch him, pull a gun, call out, pull touch if the Baas-ted runs into a dark alley, call for help, cut wire with his leatherman , note the shopping list for supper, cuff the aforesaid Baas-ted, write him up and find the cop car, wait for help.........with the crime and legislation why doesn't someone design something that can assist cops to use the various gadgets quickly and effectively. anyway maybe in the future
To all my muslim brothers and sisters Ramadaan mubarak!
I had an awesome 1st road run on saturday, 8.2 km in 49 min, average speed of 10.05 km/h.....that is such an exciting time. And still the training is going strong, WMS and myself have decided to gun a marathon in November and we have settled on the Bela Bela marathon......."no pain no gain" and I am excited as anything
the biggest test to my lifestyle change was brought about yesterday when Ocean Basket(OB) had their birthday special, R9.99 for a fish and chips.......It was soo soo hard not to go down the road and have a small FRIED chow but I stayed away, and I feel better for it.....my inner strength prevailed!
I was going to catch a bus one day and took a very popular company brand for a trip to cape town, while waiting for the bus to stop I noticed that the waiting area looked remarkably like an airport layout, ticketing area, comfortable waiting area, announcements for the buses to be boarded, baggage areas, lady who ensures that you are on the right bus, checks that you have the appropriate ticket, shows you to the correct seat and at the end of the process you are even left with a ticket stub. It can try to seem like an airport, with all the frills but at the end of the day you still get onto a bus and you have to struggle for a 24 hours bus ride in short it feels cheap. That is exactly how I feel about RICA, the process that you have to put a face with detail to your cell phone Sim card. It tries to be all big powerful and important like, the bank equivalent, FICA but it just small sad excuse, all this is just a feeling. they should have called it something else.
You know you getting old when you read something and you have to look up the meaning of words, that's how I felt when I read my 1st scientific paper since varsity "the effects of pulse power on water treatment of hard water", eish once I got around the words the paper was fairly simple to understand, but what a shock very hobbit like intimidation.
"you can take a horse to water but you cannot make it drink" we all know the meaning but my solution to that saying is take a cat to water instead. Its always entertaining for me to pick up my kitties and drop them off by a puddle of water and they just drink, maybe its their inner stray. the inner stray is also responsible for the appetite, they eat anything and everything (obviously of a protein nature). The positive thing about the "inner stray" is that they are street wise and don't seem to be in danger of getting knocked by a car.IA
I think the reason cops turn to crime is that its soo difficult to remain on the straight and narrow, let me elaborate, a cops belt with a gazillion gadgets. If that cop belt was more simplified then a cop would be able to complete their duties quickly and efficiently. I was standing in a queue behind a cop and noticed the gadgets, Batman has F(expletive) all on them, this dude had a gun, walkie talkie, cell phone, touch, leatherman, pens, pencils, writing paper, small box I assume for bullets and cuffs. now imagine at that moment, a dude breaks into a car, he has to run after the dude catch him, pull a gun, call out, pull touch if the Baas-ted runs into a dark alley, call for help, cut wire with his leatherman , note the shopping list for supper, cuff the aforesaid Baas-ted, write him up and find the cop car, wait for help.........with the crime and legislation why doesn't someone design something that can assist cops to use the various gadgets quickly and effectively. anyway maybe in the future
To all my muslim brothers and sisters Ramadaan mubarak!
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
bitter sweet
Its the start of week 5 of training, and I took my measurements. The stats reads as follows
weight:80.9kg
body fat:23.6%
waist:99cm
Its good that I lost some mass, however I feel like I lost to much and some simple arithmetic proved this, off the 3 kgs lost in 4 weeks, 2 kgs is fat (YEAH!) and 1kg is a combination of muscle and water (NOOOooooo!), i'm happy but not over the moon.
on monday, I let down my training partner, yes the dude who is meant to set an example completely stuffed up........what did I do?.........I did not get to the gym at the prescribed and agreed time. That is being a poor training partner and I should have known better!
I on my way to site on thursday and while on the flight I got to read ELLE magazine, apparently ELLE is French for girl. why would I want to read ELLE, simple that was the only reading material for me to read, I don't ever intend batting for the opposite team!
So I read a familiar "mens health" type headline, "what is he thinking in bed" and curious to see what women think men think during nookie time, and at the end of this huge article, I have absolutely no idea what we think or should think or ever thought. therefore magazines on human behaviour are B/S. I have a better chance reading ramblings from those star gazers!
Anyway with soccer and everything special in South Africa, I decided and my wife and I will attempt and check out everything "South African", So in that spirit we went to the knysna Oyster festival.
Knysna as a place is awesome. We checked out the knysna heads, view are spectacular, would recommend the featherbed tour. We ate at various restaurants in Knysna, things are cheap during festival time. Oysters taste very nice.
There is quite a number of things to do in and around knysna, infact too much for just a week, i need more time, we checked out bloukrans (Bungee), monkeyland, birds of eden, outshoon, kango caves, oteniqua tjoo choo(george-mossel bay). All of these activities are just awesome and you really earn your rest time.
2 items that stood out for us, was this place that we stayed in and just next door the eating place.
We stayed in the "Peace of Eden" the people are friendly, view is awesomeness, very peaceful, no one eyed bandit (TV) and 2 very cool horses and race horses at that. You can find their details on the net. It was the perfect place to come back to after a hard day of exploring and some wonderful peaceful sleep.
That brings us to "the red barn", next door to our accommodation is a macadamia nut orchard and in the orchard is the restaurant, 1st words that come to mind "peaceful". Then you sit for your meal, the chef comes out greets you and explains the menu (just like the F(expletive)ing movies), it was so surreal I felt like my desicision carried life altering consequences.
we ate oysters cooked in butter with macadamia nuts (so so good) as starters
I ate a chicken tikka(halaal) and my wife ate a vegetable meal (there are no words to describe how good it was, I fact my english is soo poor I cannot describe how good is was)
desserts(never never gonna eat that mass produced shyte ever again) apple pie and chocolate swiss roll, in the chefs words "fine confectionery!" and sir it was!
Now I am the type of dude who will not go out to eat a salad, but man even the salad was done with a personal touch.
As a result of my trip to knysna, I have found an appreciation of the finer things in life and now I take things easy and do things that are of benefit and have given up fast food(as a meal) only in dire circumstances. this helps with eating well as well.
the location of these places are in Rheenandal, which is about 2 kays(and I didn't make a typo 2km) outside khyna in the hills, very peaceful and worth the trip.
verdict unless you drink alcohol or doing some endurance race, the festival was lost on me abit, except there were loads of cheap oysters. Knysna in its own right does not need a festival to draw attention to itself, its an awesome awesome place, people are helpful and friendly, peaceful and safe.........next time I will visit in my summer holiday break(need to save leave).
weight:80.9kg
body fat:23.6%
waist:99cm
Its good that I lost some mass, however I feel like I lost to much and some simple arithmetic proved this, off the 3 kgs lost in 4 weeks, 2 kgs is fat (YEAH!) and 1kg is a combination of muscle and water (NOOOooooo!), i'm happy but not over the moon.
on monday, I let down my training partner, yes the dude who is meant to set an example completely stuffed up........what did I do?.........I did not get to the gym at the prescribed and agreed time. That is being a poor training partner and I should have known better!
I on my way to site on thursday and while on the flight I got to read ELLE magazine, apparently ELLE is French for girl. why would I want to read ELLE, simple that was the only reading material for me to read, I don't ever intend batting for the opposite team!
So I read a familiar "mens health" type headline, "what is he thinking in bed" and curious to see what women think men think during nookie time, and at the end of this huge article, I have absolutely no idea what we think or should think or ever thought. therefore magazines on human behaviour are B/S. I have a better chance reading ramblings from those star gazers!
Anyway with soccer and everything special in South Africa, I decided and my wife and I will attempt and check out everything "South African", So in that spirit we went to the knysna Oyster festival.
Knysna as a place is awesome. We checked out the knysna heads, view are spectacular, would recommend the featherbed tour. We ate at various restaurants in Knysna, things are cheap during festival time. Oysters taste very nice.
There is quite a number of things to do in and around knysna, infact too much for just a week, i need more time, we checked out bloukrans (Bungee), monkeyland, birds of eden, outshoon, kango caves, oteniqua tjoo choo(george-mossel bay). All of these activities are just awesome and you really earn your rest time.
2 items that stood out for us, was this place that we stayed in and just next door the eating place.
We stayed in the "Peace of Eden" the people are friendly, view is awesomeness, very peaceful, no one eyed bandit (TV) and 2 very cool horses and race horses at that. You can find their details on the net. It was the perfect place to come back to after a hard day of exploring and some wonderful peaceful sleep.
That brings us to "the red barn", next door to our accommodation is a macadamia nut orchard and in the orchard is the restaurant, 1st words that come to mind "peaceful". Then you sit for your meal, the chef comes out greets you and explains the menu (just like the F(expletive)ing movies), it was so surreal I felt like my desicision carried life altering consequences.
we ate oysters cooked in butter with macadamia nuts (so so good) as starters
I ate a chicken tikka(halaal) and my wife ate a vegetable meal (there are no words to describe how good it was, I fact my english is soo poor I cannot describe how good is was)
desserts(never never gonna eat that mass produced shyte ever again) apple pie and chocolate swiss roll, in the chefs words "fine confectionery!" and sir it was!
Now I am the type of dude who will not go out to eat a salad, but man even the salad was done with a personal touch.
As a result of my trip to knysna, I have found an appreciation of the finer things in life and now I take things easy and do things that are of benefit and have given up fast food(as a meal) only in dire circumstances. this helps with eating well as well.
the location of these places are in Rheenandal, which is about 2 kays(and I didn't make a typo 2km) outside khyna in the hills, very peaceful and worth the trip.
verdict unless you drink alcohol or doing some endurance race, the festival was lost on me abit, except there were loads of cheap oysters. Knysna in its own right does not need a festival to draw attention to itself, its an awesome awesome place, people are helpful and friendly, peaceful and safe.........next time I will visit in my summer holiday break(need to save leave).
Monday, August 2, 2010
Rocky
I am a rather big(for the moment literally) rocky fan, oh balboa is the man, anyway all that's left is find for us to find a couple of awesome road routes and statue to run up to, until then we are still in the gym hitting the treadmill.......but we could watch rocky :)
Week 3 completed and it went well, so far, we are into a awesome rhythm.I did drink a sprite zero on Thursday and the guilt is still nailing me, what happens when I visit my in laws, they take care of me tooo well, food is on another level(awesomeness), just dreading that trip. MWS did miss a training day but he is on a different mission he wants to change into a navy seal, yes like GI jane navy seal, hardcore item, and he does not want to be a female, i made mention of the movie for illustrative purposes, cause navy seals are hardcore dudes and its reflected blah blah blah(I have to put the disclaimer, health and safety purposes, don't want to piss of a training partner,navy seal.........ok never mind). his goal is well over my ability and when we do the races its going to be like "the penguin" running next to Batman. Rather embarrassing for me.
ENOUGH tjol!
Progress wise my hard run is 9km/h for 20mins at a 5% incline and my easy run is 9km/h for 20mins at a 1% incline. I feel alot learner, comfortable and a couple of my older garments are fitting better. Next week monday will be the start of week 5 and I will give an update on my personal stats.
We have outlined 3-4 races before the end of the year, personally I feel that they are challenging but we can definitely overcome them. The difficulty is not hobit/ring level!
besides, all the conditioning we are receiving from the contractors, Grief5 in particular we can overcome any adversity.They are also responsible for me drinking the sprite zero, B(expletive)!!!
I don't really feel like ranting today, don't really feel the fire, but it was about arrogant people and I don't mean Australian arrogance, because those mother fathers have mad self belief and are quietly confident.............but people who behave as if they are gods gift to humanity.nuf said!
Well in the last week I have witnessed, mentioned and thought of some funny and disturbing things, here they are below
1) I witnessed a taxi stop and give way for 3 cars to cross in front off him, this was soo amazing that I didn't have time to feel any road rage, and yes I do have my moments.
2) I witnessed this dude driving an X6 go completely ape, on a poor(because her car was crap), female, black learner driver at 11am on a saturday morning. I know that the tosser did not have his hypothalamus(part of brain that secretes the nookie hormone) satisfied the previous night. To that dude I say, self service my man self service!
BTW He almost knocked me in his moment of rage and because I was disgusted by his behaviour I would have probably unleashed some rage of my own, bring out whatever MMA I had learnt in the past year, I would have gone UFC on his ass!!!
Too all those fortune cookie peddlers about 2 wrongs don't make a right, I say F(expletive) off!
3) I said 2 phases that draws its inspiration from TV and just general slang
"he is about as useful as shit scented ear rings"
"my shit is so good its almost urine" slang that associates feces with the number 2 and urine with the number 1
4) "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"
Who ever mentioned that saying definitely was watching cats(the actual animal and not andrew lloyd webbers musical classic, haven't seen that though), cause every time I mop the floor my kitties cruise by and stare intently, with like demented excitement. Its weird cause they can be else where in the house and they will come running to view the action within a minute.And its not curiosity cause they chill for the full time I mop the floor and they show up everytime.
I'd like to surmise what they are thinking and I think it would probably go along the lines of " ooh look at that piece of shit water, its gonna get it now, ehhehehehehe, that's it Mr mop(or MR floorwhiz, not sure if my kitties can read) do the game, you are my hero" (sounds kind of like fluffy hero worship, similar to how bulls supporters support their team)
fingers crossed for good personal stats, peace
My cats are from KZN, we now stay in gauteng, are my cats having the same problem of having to sharpen up their afrikaans for the new environment. Are all meows created equal?
Week 3 completed and it went well, so far, we are into a awesome rhythm.I did drink a sprite zero on Thursday and the guilt is still nailing me, what happens when I visit my in laws, they take care of me tooo well, food is on another level(awesomeness), just dreading that trip. MWS did miss a training day but he is on a different mission he wants to change into a navy seal, yes like GI jane navy seal, hardcore item, and he does not want to be a female, i made mention of the movie for illustrative purposes, cause navy seals are hardcore dudes and its reflected blah blah blah(I have to put the disclaimer, health and safety purposes, don't want to piss of a training partner,navy seal.........ok never mind). his goal is well over my ability and when we do the races its going to be like "the penguin" running next to Batman. Rather embarrassing for me.
ENOUGH tjol!
Progress wise my hard run is 9km/h for 20mins at a 5% incline and my easy run is 9km/h for 20mins at a 1% incline. I feel alot learner, comfortable and a couple of my older garments are fitting better. Next week monday will be the start of week 5 and I will give an update on my personal stats.
We have outlined 3-4 races before the end of the year, personally I feel that they are challenging but we can definitely overcome them. The difficulty is not hobit/ring level!
besides, all the conditioning we are receiving from the contractors, Grief5 in particular we can overcome any adversity.They are also responsible for me drinking the sprite zero, B(expletive)!!!
I don't really feel like ranting today, don't really feel the fire, but it was about arrogant people and I don't mean Australian arrogance, because those mother fathers have mad self belief and are quietly confident.............but people who behave as if they are gods gift to humanity.nuf said!
Well in the last week I have witnessed, mentioned and thought of some funny and disturbing things, here they are below
1) I witnessed a taxi stop and give way for 3 cars to cross in front off him, this was soo amazing that I didn't have time to feel any road rage, and yes I do have my moments.
2) I witnessed this dude driving an X6 go completely ape, on a poor(because her car was crap), female, black learner driver at 11am on a saturday morning. I know that the tosser did not have his hypothalamus(part of brain that secretes the nookie hormone) satisfied the previous night. To that dude I say, self service my man self service!
BTW He almost knocked me in his moment of rage and because I was disgusted by his behaviour I would have probably unleashed some rage of my own, bring out whatever MMA I had learnt in the past year, I would have gone UFC on his ass!!!
Too all those fortune cookie peddlers about 2 wrongs don't make a right, I say F(expletive) off!
3) I said 2 phases that draws its inspiration from TV and just general slang
"he is about as useful as shit scented ear rings"
"my shit is so good its almost urine" slang that associates feces with the number 2 and urine with the number 1
4) "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"
Who ever mentioned that saying definitely was watching cats(the actual animal and not andrew lloyd webbers musical classic, haven't seen that though), cause every time I mop the floor my kitties cruise by and stare intently, with like demented excitement. Its weird cause they can be else where in the house and they will come running to view the action within a minute.And its not curiosity cause they chill for the full time I mop the floor and they show up everytime.
I'd like to surmise what they are thinking and I think it would probably go along the lines of " ooh look at that piece of shit water, its gonna get it now, ehhehehehehe, that's it Mr mop(or MR floorwhiz, not sure if my kitties can read) do the game, you are my hero" (sounds kind of like fluffy hero worship, similar to how bulls supporters support their team)
fingers crossed for good personal stats, peace
My cats are from KZN, we now stay in gauteng, are my cats having the same problem of having to sharpen up their afrikaans for the new environment. Are all meows created equal?
Monday, July 26, 2010
on the rails
Well us nippers are still very much at the start of our quest, but 2 weeks are done and we are feeling good. WMS is really funny dude, he gets soo so stressed with what other people(being runners opinion) that he gets abit tired to train, not really he just wants to adjust our goal. He came to talk to me about the gravity of quest as if someone had died. You can just see he is the responsible one in the family. I also turn on the guilt a few times, damn that was abit evil, but I know my hiding is still coming.
Well how do I illustrate that the training has been a success, well the obvious one is to put up pics, that is such a verimark move then I will have to convert the picture into gray scale. So I will take measurements at the beginning of every 4 weeks, the finer details of those measurements people can debate with me one on one, otherwise you will just have to do with the numbers. Weight 84.1kg, body fat 25.2% and waist measurement is 102cm
as far as eating goes I have gone cold turkey, gave up coke and everything fried,(wan tym), I only ate 2 vanilla cupcakes, oh sooo good. My good friend makes these delicacies, http://lulus.viviti.com, check out the website if you'll are interested.
Rant time, I hate people who Whine, full F(expletive)ing stop. And you can tell the whiners as those items who complain before the moment of stress is coming. EXAMPLE (and I am using myself to illustrate the point) I have decided to run the comrades marathon, and months before I complain that its too far, its too hectic, its the up run, I need to train for 2 years, I need to look like lance armstrong, Indians eat too badly, I can't stay away from the magical samoosa and and and. Seriously I would kick my fat butt all over the wall. I knew all this shit about the race, the difficulty and I have decided to do it. So I should suck up and get down to it and give it my best shot. I don't sit around and complain and my negativity will impact some dude, who is really giving it a proper shot, breaking his will to go for it. I'm being inconsiderate, selfish and most importantly justifying my failure to come. That's right I are already written myself off. There is a fine line between complaining, being realistic and whining and that's about 5mins.
And whiners are only that way because they are embarrassed, why? because they are embarrassed to fail. Everybody fails at some time or another, its how you pick yourself up and (fortune cookie moment) move forward that determines your inner strengh and makes you a better person.
You get people who sit on a fat couch and criticise other people, whiners are the slightly evolved version of these dumb F(expletive)ers. Who attempt something so they have material to carry on criticising.
Anyway that's enough on my rant, next rant will be arrogant tossers!
These days i've been feeling abit like a chicken (not really but watch the movie food.inc). Let me elaborate farmers keep chickens in a house, with the windows closed, pump in hot air, and have the lights turned on constantly. Result, chickens ready to be dinner in half the time (1.5 months vs 3 months) and poor conditions for these creatures. How does that relate to my feelings, I'm at work, in a cubicle, small window, artificial light,all i do is be productive, I also eat, catch a 1st order relief and when I have good roughage 2nd order.
Ok I lied I don't feel like a chicken , because I enjoy what I do, the challenges, the colleagues, the interactions and opportunities. But the way people work has a huge similarity to a chicken coup, hey this sounds remarkably like matrix, except we are being turned into beings that churn out numbers, facts, get fatter, irritable, can't walk properly, heart afflictions, eish this is getting a bit depressing. any way you get the idea!! (In matrix people were turned into batteries, basically , for the younger ones)
Probably someone will read this and make a prequel to the matix, lol.........Neo will fall from the egg once eats the blue/red chicken feed, lol.
puck puck (chicken noise), until next time
Well how do I illustrate that the training has been a success, well the obvious one is to put up pics, that is such a verimark move then I will have to convert the picture into gray scale. So I will take measurements at the beginning of every 4 weeks, the finer details of those measurements people can debate with me one on one, otherwise you will just have to do with the numbers. Weight 84.1kg, body fat 25.2% and waist measurement is 102cm
as far as eating goes I have gone cold turkey, gave up coke and everything fried,(wan tym), I only ate 2 vanilla cupcakes, oh sooo good. My good friend makes these delicacies, http://lulus.viviti.com, check out the website if you'll are interested.
Rant time, I hate people who Whine, full F(expletive)ing stop. And you can tell the whiners as those items who complain before the moment of stress is coming. EXAMPLE (and I am using myself to illustrate the point) I have decided to run the comrades marathon, and months before I complain that its too far, its too hectic, its the up run, I need to train for 2 years, I need to look like lance armstrong, Indians eat too badly, I can't stay away from the magical samoosa and and and. Seriously I would kick my fat butt all over the wall. I knew all this shit about the race, the difficulty and I have decided to do it. So I should suck up and get down to it and give it my best shot. I don't sit around and complain and my negativity will impact some dude, who is really giving it a proper shot, breaking his will to go for it. I'm being inconsiderate, selfish and most importantly justifying my failure to come. That's right I are already written myself off. There is a fine line between complaining, being realistic and whining and that's about 5mins.
And whiners are only that way because they are embarrassed, why? because they are embarrassed to fail. Everybody fails at some time or another, its how you pick yourself up and (fortune cookie moment) move forward that determines your inner strengh and makes you a better person.
You get people who sit on a fat couch and criticise other people, whiners are the slightly evolved version of these dumb F(expletive)ers. Who attempt something so they have material to carry on criticising.
Anyway that's enough on my rant, next rant will be arrogant tossers!
These days i've been feeling abit like a chicken (not really but watch the movie food.inc). Let me elaborate farmers keep chickens in a house, with the windows closed, pump in hot air, and have the lights turned on constantly. Result, chickens ready to be dinner in half the time (1.5 months vs 3 months) and poor conditions for these creatures. How does that relate to my feelings, I'm at work, in a cubicle, small window, artificial light,all i do is be productive, I also eat, catch a 1st order relief and when I have good roughage 2nd order.
Ok I lied I don't feel like a chicken , because I enjoy what I do, the challenges, the colleagues, the interactions and opportunities. But the way people work has a huge similarity to a chicken coup, hey this sounds remarkably like matrix, except we are being turned into beings that churn out numbers, facts, get fatter, irritable, can't walk properly, heart afflictions, eish this is getting a bit depressing. any way you get the idea!! (In matrix people were turned into batteries, basically , for the younger ones)
Probably someone will read this and make a prequel to the matix, lol.........Neo will fall from the egg once eats the blue/red chicken feed, lol.
puck puck (chicken noise), until next time
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
the beginning
well again i have stepped into something "what everybody else is doing"........well for slightly different reasons.
1) Motivation, my training partner, Walter Scharf, and myself will be attempting the 2 oceans marathon and comrades next year. The question will inevitably come, are you'll mad and the answer, short and sweet, YES, and if you want to bother us with weird stories of strife, difficulty and failure my words to you are, "We do not give a flying F(expletive) what you have to say" and we will succeed, i hope:)
after statements like the ones mentioned above embarrassment will be a great motivator.
oh and if you have motivating words to say, you'll are female (cause things like that are too fluffy, for us cardboard main members(meaning gangsters) ;)
OR you'll are dudes with a more sensitive side...........:
and 2) airing my utterly pointless and completely useless views, and my thoughts on a variety of subjects. This is also illustrated in the choice of name for my blog. Masalatjol,which is broken into 2 words ,masala-which is a type of spice and tjol- which is a Afrikaans slang word for shit, kak, crap. All the feces related words are in reference to the contents of this blog, "pointless load of bullshit" daarsy!
just on the training, we are a week and a half into it, and man we have not needed much motivation to get up early and train. Its been good. My wife is also helping me with my weight training segment, damn she is rather strong!
the real test will be once we start our road work. I am mad excited and I will continue my training through Ramadan, that might be abit of a challenge.
since varsity I have had some awesome experiences, varsity was good, but post varsity was awesome, so I will try and highlights little moments and joys in the whole journey.
1) Motivation, my training partner, Walter Scharf, and myself will be attempting the 2 oceans marathon and comrades next year. The question will inevitably come, are you'll mad and the answer, short and sweet, YES, and if you want to bother us with weird stories of strife, difficulty and failure my words to you are, "We do not give a flying F(expletive) what you have to say" and we will succeed, i hope:)
after statements like the ones mentioned above embarrassment will be a great motivator.
oh and if you have motivating words to say, you'll are female (cause things like that are too fluffy, for us cardboard main members(meaning gangsters) ;)
OR you'll are dudes with a more sensitive side...........:
and 2) airing my utterly pointless and completely useless views, and my thoughts on a variety of subjects. This is also illustrated in the choice of name for my blog. Masalatjol,which is broken into 2 words ,masala-which is a type of spice and tjol- which is a Afrikaans slang word for shit, kak, crap. All the feces related words are in reference to the contents of this blog, "pointless load of bullshit" daarsy!
just on the training, we are a week and a half into it, and man we have not needed much motivation to get up early and train. Its been good. My wife is also helping me with my weight training segment, damn she is rather strong!
the real test will be once we start our road work. I am mad excited and I will continue my training through Ramadan, that might be abit of a challenge.
since varsity I have had some awesome experiences, varsity was good, but post varsity was awesome, so I will try and highlights little moments and joys in the whole journey.
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