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Pause…

By Urban Ninja | Published: August 31, 2010
Back tomorrow, with wisdom and insight….
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Last Chance to Vote

By Urban Ninja | Published: August 25, 2010
If you find ANY worth in my blog, please click the link and confirm your vote for Urban Ninja as best sports as well as personal blog of the year. Thank you. SA Blog Awards have done quite a bit of extra work this year and your vote counts monumentally to [...]
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Why Puma?

By Urban Ninja | Published: August 25, 2010
I often get asked why I have a partnership with Puma, beyond the amazingly cool products they make. It’s not always understood what goes on behind the scenes at Puma and how much development is going on with their footwear line. It’s not new news that Bolt has renewed with Puma and there will be [...]
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Find the flow…

By Urban Ninja | Published: August 17, 2010
Rushing down the singletrack at Contermanskloof a few weekends ago I felt it for the first time since Ironman South Africa. The flow was there. It takes months to cultivate, hours of technique perfection and a whole heap of aerobic economy but it was there. I felt it, unmistakably. It’s effortless, gliding through the trails, [...]
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Suffering & Perseverance, 2 Essential Lessons.

By Urban Ninja | Published: August 16, 2010
The last few seconds ticked down to the start and my mind was suddenly back at that place. Only moments before there was some joking, some laughter and some smiles going around, but now, my body has turned and my mind has clicked over to the inevitability to becoming one with the pain. It’s instantly [...]
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Live what you love…

By Urban Ninja | Published: August 13, 2010
I found this very, very groovy picture on Kim Gray’s page and instantly found association to it. Added to this was a brief conversation (from my side, I got a pretty decent amount back) about being an “island” with someone this week. I am sports obsessive, yes. I am quite happy to say that what [...]
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Time to vote, again…

By Urban Ninja | Published: August 11, 2010
Its SA Blog Awards time again and if you enjoy reading this blog, please click the button below or in the sidebar and nominate me for the Sports, Personal Blog and one other category too please. Pretty please. Don’t make me have to create a competition for this based on winning some awards… [...]
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A Winning Story

By Urban Ninja | Published: August 9, 2010
Many years ago, this British girl arrived at one of our group rides in Pretoria. She had just gotten a road bike. She was not that great to start, but here she is now, 2 Cape Epic wins later and a rider on the no 1 women’s team in the world. She is such an [...]
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Interview: Ryan Sandes (the worlds leading ultra marathon runner)

By Urban Ninja | Published: July 20, 2010
Image courtesy of Nick Muzik. I recently grabbed the chance to interview Ryan Sandes. If you have not heard of him, shame on you. He is probably one of the 3 most awarded athletes in South Africa. His sport, ultra STAGE marathon running (across deserts no less) is quite niche and like a Greg Minnaar, [...]
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It’s all about the he said she said…

By Urban Ninja | Published: July 20, 2010
So there we have it. Bert is sorry for what happened yesterday. After the absolute plethora of abuse he took from the Twitter universe (although, really, how much do you think he cares about that) after yesterday I thought to give as neutral an opinion on the matter as humanly possible. Right from the offset, [...]
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