'The Competitiveness of Orienteering' in Do It Now

It's always great to get orienteering articles into magazines; orienteering is even less mainstream than adventure racing despite it being a HUGE sport way up North in the Scandinavian countries.

This one has just come out in the February 2013 issue of Do It Now magazine. They've done a great layout on this one. Jan Kocbach's photograph looks fabulous. My thanks to Elri Flamengo (Editorial Director) for saying "Yes!" to orienteering and for giving this feature article a comfy three pages.

Published! January bonanza

I hit the sweepstakes with a bunch of stuff coming out at the beginning of January in Go Multi and TRAIL magazines.

I think this one came about when TRAIL magazine received a reader question. TRAIL passed the email on to me for my comments; Carine added some comments too. And here - in the new issue (Jan/Feb 2013) of TRAIL - you've got some trail loo etiquette.

A review on the Salomon Mission XR trail shoe in the new (Jan/Feb 2013) issue of TRAIL magazine.

An advert for this year's Fish River Canyon Ultra (Namibia). I spotted it in the Jan/Feb 2013 issues of TRAIL and Go Multi magazines. Yes, that's me in the photo - making my way into the canyon. I ran in the inaugural event in August 2011 - my first time in the Canyon. And I had an absolutely fantastic day. I'm away when this event takes place this year (it's four days after my birthday!) but I can recommend it highly. Great way to see the Canyon - in one day. My race report is here, on this blog.

My new column, "What makes tough?" in the new (Jan/Feb 2013) issue of Go Multi magazine.

Article: All routes lead to the finish

This is my new column in the current (Nov/Dec 2012) issue of Go Multi magazine. It looks at the issues, reasons and value behind short coursing.

And this is a valued and treasured Letter to the Editor, from adventure racing-ultra-rogaining-everything champ Ryno Griesel. Also in Nov/Dec issue. He's commenting on my column in the previous issue. Very cool ;) Comments like this from Ryno... very special indeed.

11 Truths of Endurance Running - Article

My new column in the May-June edition of Go Multi magazine. I got the idea for this one when I was trawling through the web looking for thoughts / messages to use as fortune cookie 'fortunes' for my Metrogaine event. There were so many gems and so I'll pulled out my favourites for this article.

If you come to Metrogaine Jo'burg on Thurs, 21 June, you can pick your own fortune (I used a whole bunch so there's a lot more where these in the article came from). Pre-entry only. Limited entry numbers.

Chafing article in MarApr 2012 issue of Go Multi

I rarely post my published articles - but I should. Nice to keep track of 'em. I generally do post the ones I write for Go Multi on www.AR.co.za in the Articles section. One issue's article goes up when the next issue comes out.

In the March/April 2012 issue of Go Multi magazine.