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  1. I thought I'd chime in as I've been doing this for a few years now.

     

    I.F is not for everyone but there are some great principals & lessons that I learned from changing my lifestyle and doing this. See what I did there???? I said lifestyle because that is pretty much what this has been for me but it's also a dangerous game this whole fasting thing and some people, me included are doing some real strange things out there that isn't particularly healthy for me. Even with me practicing this after a while I needed to speak to some friends because of me being a recovering addict, having seen friends suffer with eating disorders & spending time with these good folk who suffer,  I was worried that I too had developed one.

     

    My brief story

     

    I used to be overweight for my height and I set out to change a few years ago. I shed over 25kg over a period of around 6 months.

     

    I set out to try fasting because I saw my friend Tommy Huynh's transformation happen and I was real curious & inspired by it, also...... my girl at the time broke up with me and I wanted to bone loads of girls seeing that I was now single and morally allowed to use Tinder  ;) Oh... and ride bike harder, faster, more often & for longer..... I wanted to drop lot's of body mass because I was fat & those were my motives.

     

    Tommy follows the OMAD (one meal a day) lifestyle & he eats like a whole chicken in a salad as a meal, it's a large meal but he is a beast and trains pretty hard and that what works for him.

     

    This looked waaay too hectic for me to follow so I thought I'd just do a 16-18 hr fast period being mindful of good nutrition to keep me sustained during rides and life in general. 

     

    With practicing I.F I soon started changing the way I saw food especially because I often go out riding during the fast period. I started looking at food as fuel for the body and I started eating for purpose rather than enjoyment or gluttony. 

     

    I still binge every now and again but I do it when I know I have a big pedal coming up the next day so I can burn it all, no problem.

     

    Right at the start I was eating plant based because my ex was vegan and I thought I'd just carry on with that after we split.I like to Keep It SImple & after a month or so I found it was too hectic and I was bonking. I became conscious of what I was putting in and with plant based I found I was eating way to many starches and there was no proper balance, I needed to eat all the time and to get balanced was making life too complicated for me especially when travelling often. It wasn't working for me so I switched to pescatarian which was a little less complicated but over a period of 2 months I switched over completely to eating whatever as long as it's a wholesome balanced meal and within my feeding times. Breakfasts are always pretty much the same, even now.... it's oats, fruit, yoghurt and the rest of the day depends on what I feel like again as long as it was balanced but I riding a lot so I burn loads of calories. 

     

    I dropped from 85 to 74(my target weight)& I felt a difference in performance. I did a trip to the states and during that 3 week period and not really fasting, just riding everyday and I dropped from 74 to 68 on the "american road diet" which was mostly pretty non nutritious. When I got to 68 I felt so good riding that I thought, "Hey, maybe 65 would be better". I just got caught up in the whole thing now.

    I dropped to 65 very quickly, like a week, because from all the repetition and knowledge gained during my journey I was so in tune with how my body works & reacts That it's super easy for me to shed.

     

    I soon did another 3 week riding trip away and even though I was eating a lot during the time away I wasn't really keeping an eye on the scale and my caloric intake to burn was not Balanced.

     

    I came back weighing under 60kg. last time I weighed in that region I was plugging myself with as much drugs as i could get my hands on. That got me thinking that maybe this game I'm playing ain't too healthy so I need to get back up to a respectable weight class. I spoke to some friends and I settled  63kg which is pretty much what I easily maintain now because one year later from that event I am so aware of both sides. Good and the bad.

     

    So why do I still fast after all that?

     

    Well, I fast now but I'm not the strictest faster out there, Weekdays I fast while on weekends i fly with the birds.

     

    When I travel I don't really fast because I burn too many calories for me to eat that much in the window period & I'm so used to it that I can monitor and maintain mass super easily.

    It's taught me discipline, and I am now very aware and conscious of caloric burn to intake with food.

    After all that I learned even more about balanced and it's constant work.

    I don't think I felt more alert while I was fasting or performed better because of the fast itself. I feel that's all due to mass loss & nutrition & because of that I don't eat much junk foods at all. It just makes me feel lethargic.

     

    To drop mass is easy but to keep that mass off is where it used to be tricky with all those diets and all. That's where this helps me with maintenance.

  2. The build in the video looks epic. I have done some of the trails there before and loved it so much that I often do day trips to Hogsback just to ride in the forest.

     

    Is there any way of sharing the new trails on Trailforks if they're not there already.

    How tight do you wear your ride pant?

  3. You are ********* crazy! Crazy I tell you! 

     

    So am I. Can't wait to get my ass down there.

    You'll dig this joint so much.

     

    I got post trip depression from this place and hey there are a couple of great Cape Trails but they ain't got nothing on these.

     

    WC really needs to step up there game a lot if they want to compete with what's happening there in the EC.

  4. As someone who is no stranger to 'shredding the gnar' that trail scares the pants off me and we all know a gopro/pov makes 10 foot drops look like curb hops.

     

    I don't think there are too many guys around who could navigate that without buying some serious land.

     

    That gap to rock made my butt clench hard!

    Look, not all the trails are gnarly all the time but you will have moments where you think twice about what you are doing. But hey, That's all part of the fun and why we do what we do right? 

     

    Just think of all the cake you'll deserve and how proud of yourself you'll be when you clean the sections and all the high fives and fisting you be doing to each other...... oh sorry, "fist bumbimping"

     

    Ja, That launchpad is pretty wild & that trail is hardcore & spooky.

  5. You'll be doing yourselves a gigantic favor by getting in on this.

     

    It's not just the trails that are super duper special but the whole of Hogback is magical and you won't need to consume any mushrooms to experience this magic. 

     

    The trails are best in country and real wild like you've never experienced.

    Built by riders for riders... No dumbing down and definitely no governing by clubs, chairmen and bodies wanting "family friendly" trails.

     

    Beginner riders and xc folk there is a lot of dirt road for you to explore while the rest find the gnar in the woods. Or if you think you are brave enough then by all means, come get some......

     

    Organize a lift club and come get what you really bought into when you purchased a "big boy bike".  Crazy, scared & most importantly a Party on the trail!!!

  6. Yes, do it for yourself and in the process you may help, influence and inspire someone, even if it's 1 person you're making more of a difference everyone else who doesn't try.

     

    Don't care what anyone else thinks. It's real hard in the beginning but you'll get the hang of it eventually.

     

    If you never try, you'll never know and if you fail then at least you have closure, right?

     

    You have nothing to lose.

  7. So I just got back today. I've done some more learning.

     

    1. Bum bags are a thing. Lord alone knows why.

    2. Guys continue to ride waaaaay beyond their limits and destroying themselves 3-4 days in. It's like clockwork.

    3. I firmly believe this is the most diverse riding area on the planet. Where else can you ride a TDF col, ride multiple world cup and national cup tracks, ride the Vink Line. All from the same chalet?

    4. You can do it for almost any budget. Duran is over there right now man in a vanning it with 2 others for €3000 for the van.

    5. The single crown bikes are there. Singlecrown bikes outnumber DH bikes. Except in chatel. That's still big bike country. But rideable on single crown bikes.

    6. They are REALLY putting effort in to trail maintenance and building. We saw multiple trail teams every day.

    7. There's a LOT more than the bike parks.

    8. There's a reason Greg lives there. Commencal bases themselves there. Pivot etc etc.

    9. If you don't do a bolt check every day your brand new Xtr derailleur will end up in a bush.

    Possibly 2019 again, but let's see.

  8. Good memories! And a great video to show just how flippen rocky that trail is. I love it and fear it in equal amounts! Thanks Wayne!

    I can't wait to go back there. It was proper gnarly but crazy fun to ride. You guys set up an amazing event dude. The best proper enduro race in WC.

     

    Plenty of great riding for all skill levels, if the tracks scares you, pull out and work on your skills, set the completion of the track as a  goal for the next year. 

     

     

    Thanks Wayne! Very cool vid. I greatly appreciate you representing us by show casing this mind blowing event.

     

    Thanks dude, It's a pleasure for me to do this and I'm hoping to try help the sport grow here, which it is.

  9. Eselfontein has some of the best trails in the Western Cape with some of the most spectacular scenery around. 

     

    Best to make a weekend of the trip so you get to enjoy all of the vastly different trails located on the Eselfontein farm. Accommodation is available on the Eselfontein website or if you are a frequent AirBnB'er I'm sure you can hook yourself up with a sweet spot very close by in Ceres.

     

    Here is what you can expect from the pipeline side of the trails as well as the back hills close to the dams.

    https://youtu.be/-TLzpIMqyKI

  10. Want to know what or how the legendary Ezelenduro trails are like?

     

    Follow this thread over the next few weeks & I'll take you on my journey to show you just how fast, furious this race really is. You'll get to see from a riders POV as to what it takes to ride & complete one of the most brutal mountain bike enduro races available to us here in South Africa.

     

     

    Are you planning on riding Eselfontein soon?

     

    Will you be joining in on the fun in 2018?

  11. Looks awesome ????

    Ive not done any riding there except Origin of Trails which was mostly on the Banghoek side.

     

    Is this a new trail, or is this one on the Boschendal map (two drop routes are marked Inferno and Sugar Bowl )

     

    Does the permit include the Banghoek side as well? I would like to ride down those switchbacks again ☺

    It's a new trail that is not on the map yet. It's very close to Inferno but it's seperate.

     

    I don't know much about the permit access but for this trail you purchase a permit from the boschendal farm deli.

  12. I actually didn't shoot this video using a very wide angle.

     

    Technicality is going to boil down to riders ability, to me it was easy but so much fun but others may find it challenging. I would grade it as a red trail, maybe a little black by the rock, just because of the drop.

     

    Second corner is a relatively steep to some but there is a chicken line. Don't ride it if you can't corner properly.

     

    The rock garden is proper fun, we just giggled & laughed so hard down there but I think majority of unskilled riders will walk it, there was a fork that led into a chicken line but not sure if that skips the rock garden.

     

    Then toward the bottom where the rock ramp is there is a chicken line which skips it and you don't need to do any drops etc.

     

    The trail does cater for gravity riders and I was riding a 150mm travel bike but I could easily ride it on 100mm XC bike, hard tail would be rough in the garden but I think those like like it rough will enjoy. 120mm travel would be ideal.

     

    Know your limits and don't ride beyond them and all should be golden, don't be "That Guy". Keep it tidy, safe & sleazy.

     

    Hope this helps

  13. Happy New Year.

     

    Video or it didn't happen, right?

     

    Yes, you read it correctly, Cape Town's already large trail system just got BIGGER. We are so lucky and blessed to have such a wide variety and massive amount of trail at our disposal..... Be Grateful.

     

    This trail is just awaiting signage before it's official opening but it's gonna happen real soon.... excited much?

     

    Best enjoyed with a cold one.

     

    https://youtu.be/pQlZ_aUz70Q

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