Life is too short to be ordinary — or to wait until failure feels impossible. The 2022 calendar grew into a deliberately varied list of endurance projects.
The challenge list
- Everesting Westcliff: repeat the steps until reaching 8,848 m of vertical ascent.
- Dusi Canoe Marathon: 120 km of river paddling and learning under pressure.
- Ironman South Africa: a return to long-course triathlon.
- Freedom Challenge Extreme Triathlon: Comrades, the Race Across South Africa and Berg River Canoe Marathon in sequence.
- Robben Island open-water swim: a cold-water crossing to Big Bay.
- 100 km indoor rowing: an endurance test where pacing and patience are everything.
The point was never to make every challenge look easy. The point was to keep choosing things that required new skills, new patience and a willingness to be uncomfortable.