Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Day 5 Of The #Run2Stop Challenge [PICS + VIDEO]

On Friday last week the Continental Run2Stop Challenge came to an end at the Leamogetswe Children’s Home in Atteridgeville, Pretoria. The home was the site of the final CSI challenge of the competition, and doubled as the finish line for the athletes, who had clocked up close to 1,000 kilometres on the road over the […]

Day 4 Of The #Run2Stop Challenge [VIDEO]

As I write this (retrospectively), it’s the beginning of the final day of the Run2Stop Challenge. We’ve travelled almost 600 kilometres, and in that time we’ve busted knees, come close to cutting off fingers, harpooned rocks with steel rods, built jungle gyms from scratch, and suffered heat-induced delirium. But we’ve also found out a few […]

Day 2 Of The #Run2Stop Challenge [VIDEO]

The day dawned with the news that Pierre, Jimmy and I would be building a jungle gym at a fantastic but under-resourced creche in Ikageng, just outside of Potch. Team Edge (our opponents) would be completing the same task across town. The fastest erection (stop it) would mark the winning team. At this point I would like to apologise to anyone in the construction industry for ever maligning you as brick-tossing cement monkeys. What you guys do is really hard, construction polls are very heavy, and my hands are quite soft.

Day 1 Of The #Run2Stop Challenge [VIDEO]

Yesterday was a very special day. For one thing, it was my birthday (thanks). For another thing, it was the beginning of the 2013 #Run2Stop Challenge. race was full of surprises as the nerves of uncertainty kicked in! The day started with lots of cameras and interviews at the beautiful grounds of Lucas “Masterpieces” Moripe […]

Attention Athletes: Win Yourself A Trip To The 2014 FIFA World Cup™ In Brazil

As you may know, I’m going to be racing in the Continental #Run2Stop challenge this November. If you didn’t catch the breakdown of the event, you can read that here. As the designated “blogger” for my team, I’ll be doing the driving charity legs of the race, as well as instagramming photos of flowers and/or […]