Monthly Archives: May 2012
Ultimate Sports Nutrition
Tweet Nutrition is going to be key to me successfully riding a single geared bicycle over 1500 km… uphill, and I am more than ecstatic to announce that USN (Ultimate Sports Nutrition is what it stands for) has officially jumped on board the One Gear bus (there isn’t actually a bus – that’s the next sponsorship … Continue reading
Categories: Sponsors, USN
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First 50
Tweet Not the first 50 km of training but the first time for this initiative that I have completed a 50 km ride on the BMX – I am writing this from the couch where I intend spending the rest of the day…
Categories: GPS Tracks, Training
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Magnificent Michael
Tweet Michael Nurcombe-Thorne just threw R1000 at the One Gear cause! and I don’t mean in anyway to diminish his efforts by implying that he has loads of cash to just “throw” around. What I meant was that he didn’t think twice! He is hence magnificent! … also I really struggled to find an alternative word to create some … Continue reading
Categories: Donations
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Kyalami
Tweet Kyalami means “my home” in Zulu. I can tell you that it didn’t feel like my home when I was riding up the mineshaft, which strangely enough reappears each time you do another lap. I was not trying to be a hero by overtaking geared bikes as I went up it…it’s just that with the BMX … Continue reading
Categories: GPS Tracks, Training
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I don’t know Francisco Andre
Tweet Francisco Andre is a guy I have never met…and he has just donated R1000 to the One Gear cause! I began One Gear as a way for me to expel what I thought were altruistic charitable energies but I realize now that no effort is truly altruistic. You always get something out of it for yourself. This whole initiative … Continue reading
Categories: Donations
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Second Sponsor
Tweet Our first sponsor took the last stage and now our second sponsor has taken the first stage! You do the math. We are all kinds of giddy with excitement that iScrip has joined the One Gear cause and has not only sponsored this first stage but have committed to sponsoring another 2 stages as well; … Continue reading
Categories: Stage Sponsors
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Laps
Tweet Laps of the same 5km route = monotonous (or replace with any of the following: repetitious, tedious or mind-numbing). I did what I could to make it more exciting and attempted to shave time on each progressive lap by hitting apexes tighter and tucking in on downhills…forgetting at moments that I have spent more of … Continue reading
Categories: GPS Tracks
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Cath’s Contribution
Tweet Catherine Mary Egbers or Cath Dog as I like to call her, just donated R500 to One Gear! Thanks Cathmeister (that’s also what I like to call her)! She made the donation while travelling and unemployed giving the rest of you who haven’t yet contributed pretty much no excuse – Get on it!
Categories: Donations
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