Living in South Africa and specifically Natal there is an element of freedom you just don't find anywhere else. Weather has been top the last 2 weeks and have been loving training. Stolen a word from the surf industry I tend to use a lot these days, the STOKE of where I live and what I do is classic! Even got a chance to hit a little MTB session last week and dig this photo taken of my phone of a very warm spring evening.

The lack of blogging of late is due to the stress on the free time in my day to day routine. Man I have been all over the place. The pressure to get back into shape after a shoulder niggle in hectic, feel like I have been thrown in the deep end and told to swim with no water wings, well I am kicking for dear life!

Training is coming on nicely. I am trying to be realistic, as I have started way to late for the end of year tour to Hong Kong and Dubai. If I do enough quality before then I will be on form, just cant miss any sessions are mess around, at this late stage some focu...

I am reading a cool book at the moment called Spud! It was written by a South African and has certainly captured the imagination of the population. The book takes about truly Saffa culture and the little quirks that go with living in my playground.

I have had an overload of Saffa culture the 2 weeks. Firstly the little Karoo town of Cradock the hosts the best canoe race in the world in the Fish and then last night I headed up to Hilton to do the Energiser ni...

Some personal video's from th weekend.

Good friends Wayne Ashford and Mark Sutherland shooting Marlow on the first tripping day.

Prime Circle went mad at the fish on Friday evening, so cool to see the pride of the South African music industry and a personal favourite rock out the tiny town of Cradock in the Karoo

I have done many races all over the world but one seems to stand out every year. The Fish River Canoe Marathon just cannot be missed. With a little shoulder admin I haven’t been able to train properly the last couple weeks so elected not to race. I took on the new K3 category socially with two mates from Cape Town in Justin Swart and Marcel Bosson.