What gets you up, early in the morning?

A "Rude Awakening" is when the alarm goes off before sunrise, you don your preferred form of lycra, and head out into the great outdoors to push your body to its limits...

It can also be a wake up call to reassess what you are doing with your life.

Sport has changed my life, and that of many others around me. These are some of our stories.

Latest Posts

Karoo 2 Coast - Backwards

04 Sep 2011
For the past couple of years, a small group of us have cycled from Knysna up to Uniondale as a 'warm up' for Karoo 2 Coast.  We figure that if you're gonig to make the pilgrimage all the way from Cape Town to Knysna, you may as well make the...

Table Mountain Cable Card

06 Jun 2011
Yeeha!  I've got my card at last.  It took more than a month to get my act together, but now I am sorted. At the Plattekllip Charity Challenge earlier this year I won 2 Cable Card vouchers.  This card, which can be bought for R490,...

Tulbagh XCM - by MTN and Nissan

20 May 2011
Ultra vs Marathon.  110km vs 75km.  If there's a long route option, why on earth would you do the shorter? This is what bugged me when I wanted to enter this particular race.  I then got quite upset when I discovered that the racing...