LIVE DEEPLY, TREAD LIGHTLY
Blue bottles, vomiting, massive swell and bumpy seas awaited me in a 5 hour training swim this weekend. I came to PE to give a talk and decided to use the opportunity to stay for the weekend and get some colder water training done. The plan was to swim for 5...
Little by little - this is my motto for the year. 8 years ago when I travelled to Hawaii for the first time to meet a friend, I never imagined that my life would have taken the twist that it has. That trip set in motion my journey into open water swimming and...
This weekend I had the privilege of swimming in a training camp in Sterkfontein in the Free State. Just outside the town of Harrismith, Sterkfontein is one of the catchment areas of the Vaal River. Its claim to fame is having the second highest dam wall in South...
I was recently asked the questions: Is wrapping paper recyclable? I did not know the answer to this question, but as I started researching it and thinking about the question, I started to realise that although the question was well intentioned, we are missing the...
Having already been in Argentina as physio for team SA at the recent Youth Olympics, I could not miss the opportunity to hop on a plane to meet with Mark and Camilla (Plastic Oceans Chile) to discuss the options and logistics of my next planned swim around Easter...
