Tagged: gravel riding

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Munga Metaphors: Befriending the dragon

As I promised myself in the ongoing internal conversation that occupied many hours of difficult riding on the 2024 Munga, I gave myself a celebratory tattoo. I have drunk deep at the desert windmill that pumps the Munga cool-aid and so the artwork inked onto my right forearm by Marc...

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Munga – Why and How?

The Munga is 6 days away. 1130km with a 120 hour cutoff from Bloemfontein to Wellington cross country on farm and dirt roads. The organizer sent a questionnaire looking for general biographical information and included the questions “Why are you doing this?” “Stretching the body to make room for the...

the gravel road from Wellington to Hermon 0

Munga grit training and Eroica

Training for an ultra-endurance mountain bike event takes a lot of time. Here’s two video montages from a recent training ride with a friend and from the Eroica Nova gravel bike event in lovely Montagu in the Western Cape. And here’s the one from the Eroica Nova

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