by Cat Greer | Oct 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
There’s a point on the road where pain stops being the enemy.Where every cell that burns becomes a kind of prayer.That’s where Drikus Coetzee lives. The Namibian ultra-endurance cyclist — nicknamed “The Machine” — has carved his name into one of the hardest races on...
by Cat Greer | Oct 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Some sorrows defy being tucked away in silence.They walk with you to the kettle, ride shotgun to the supermarket, and stare back from a dark window at 3 a.m. In the Munga, a race of long, corrugated roads that do not ask for your name—roads that do not care for your...
by Cat Greer | Oct 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Joggie Rautenbach learned a long time ago that the worst noise in an ultra isn’t the wind or the chain squeaking—it’s your own head. David Goggins would call it the war within. Joggie just smiles and says, “Sit met jou rug teen ‘n windpomp se muur, kiep vir ‘n...
by Cat Greer | Oct 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Karoo has a way of humbling everyone who crosses it. The wind, the dust, the long hours alone, it strips you down to what’s real. And somewhere out there, in the quiet between stars and sunrise, you find out who you truly are. For Martie Joubert, that truth has a...
by Cat Greer | Oct 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
Some races you enter with a plan. Others — like The Munga — you enter with a question.Am I truly made for this? For Hansie Joubert, that question has been answered more than once. A multiple winner of various Munga Grits, the Munga Sword Series, and, of course, the...
