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Mana Pools, Zimbabwe

Posted by Chris Felgate on Tuesday, October 2, 2012, In : Personal

If you are ever lucky enough to get the chance to go to Mana Pools, in the Zambezi Velley, do not pass this up. This is truly one of the most wild 'public' camping grounds you will ever experience. There are no fences or anything to prevent animals coming into your camp site. You are in their territory and must respect that. Nikki and I were lucky enough to get this opportunity two weeks ago and went up with four others, meeting up with one of my oldest mates, Rory Mackie (2003 Duathlon U23 W...
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ITU World Cup Israel, Nov 2007

Posted by Chris Felgate on Thursday, October 27, 2011, In : Personal

In Nov 2011 issue of Triathlon Plus magazine... old pic on their files!

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Drive for funding to assist in getting to races to qualify for the London 2012 Olympic Games

Posted by Chris Felgate on Sunday, October 2, 2011, In : Personal

I would like to thank Rob Benyon, warden of my res, Piet Retief, while I was at Rhodes Univeristy for assisting me with raising funds to try and get to more races to qualify for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Rob is organising an Adventure Fun Run and Relay Race at Rhodes University on Wednesday 5th of October in aid of this.

If you are unable to attend the run and would like to assist in any donations, please contact Rob.

For more information: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=12716876071...
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Last few days

Posted by Chris Felgate on Wednesday, April 20, 2011, In : Personal

JHB has been experiencing terrible weather of late.. cold, wet and windy! Anyway, this last Sunday I entered a local 114km cycle race as an Elite- first "pro" start in a cycle race! Anyway, after about 25km's we started descending a long hill. The group started to pace and people were doing stupid things. I decided to actually be conservative and slowed to 80km/hr. It did mean that I lost the group and ended up riding the remaining km's with 2 other guys. It was a solid day out and good expe...
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