PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa (1 October 2015) – IRONMAN® South Africa is excited to welcome HIGH5 Sports Nutrition as Official Nutrition Partner for the next three years. The partnership will see HIGH5 Sport Nutrition supply on-course nutrition at all major events under the IRONMAN South Africa stable including Africa’s flagship triathlon, the Standard Bank IRONMAN African Championship in Nelson Mandela Bay along ...
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Standard Bank Ironman 2015 – Managing the fear!
Any Ironman is scary, and Standard Bank Ironman 2015 will be as well. Period. You know your body will experience pain way above and beyond what it is used to. First on any athlete’s mind is: will I be the best I can be on race day? The other nagging fear is: how will my day unfold? Will there be ...
Read More »Ironman SA 2015 – Some questions you can ask yourself!
Ironman is a beast and you beat it down with months of dedication, training and top end gear. The reality is that a myriad of small things can rob you of the opportunity to kill the beast on race day. Getting your fitness in place takes centre stage during the months of preparation, and smaller issues that can cause devastation on race day sometimes ...
Read More »Ironman: Doing It Wrong – Part 2: Those Long Training Hours
Ironman asks of you not to think too much. There were only 15 competitors for the first Ironman in 1978. In 2012, the first year the Colour Run was launced in the US, the average amount of participants per race was 12 000. That is because the Colour Run is like a heaped-up container of cheap chocolates at a checkout ...
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