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Eh cmon' date=' I'm not that easy!! [/quote'] Sooo.... She was hot?

That is one of the silliest remarks I've ever seen! South African importers are screwing consumers blind! They get away with this because not everybody is in a position to order directly from international suppliers, while others are worried about the risk. I am a proud parrallel importer (even if I only import for myself). Sooner or later there will be enough people like me to force local importers to change their behaviour.

I only recently took up cycling as cross training to help improve my cardio fitness. I am a runner - or atleast I thought I was. I really enjoy cycling! I train 6 days a week. Three days strength training in the gym, three days cardio. These days I alternate my weeks between 1 day running, two cycling and vice versa. I am very carefull about what I eat. I don't eat fried foods (except for chicken stir fry prepared with olive oil spray and cook) or foods high in fat. I drink lots of water. I eat lots of nuts, fresh fruit and at least two servings of carbs a day (usually wholewheat bread or pasta). I eat lots of fish and skinless chicken. When I eat red meat, I try and stick to low fat cuts and will always cut the fat off of my meat. I eat at least 5 small meals a day, but watch my calorie intake very carefully. Following this diet and exercise program, I have lost 18 kg's in the last 5 months. I was fairly fit before, but had really bad eating habits. Got a bit of a shocker with my last medical - high cholesterol - and didn't want to use medication to fix the problem, so I fixed my lifestyle instead.

Pity we can't just phone or sms in our votes on the way to groenkloof. Wonder how many people are going to be getting up at 4 am to be at the polling station at 5 am. With any luck our station will be quiet.

I phoned groenkloof and the lady on duty confirmed that they will be open on Wednesday.

Geez, I never even considered that they might also be closed due to the voting! I'll give them a call and psot their response a bit later.

Anybody know what time the polling stations will be opening on Wednesday? Thinking to get there early, get the whole voting thing out of the way, and using the rest of the day for something more important like hitting those single tracks at Groenkloof.

Being seconds away from getting your face rearranged by some random branch stikking out into the 45 degree downhill single track from hell (read heaven) is what MTB'ing is all about. Also, it sure beats having to cough your way through car exhausts, dodging potholes and having to rely on heavenly intervention to avoid being taken out by some drunk, unliscenced taxi driver hellbent on travelling back in time and getting his vehicle full of praying (no, this is not a typo) customers to their destination 5 minutes before they get into his little slice of the African dream.