MY WORDS my viewpoint
FINDING STOKE
“Dude! Sorry man. Stuck in my head. Not sure I am going to finish this. Just going to take it peak by peak and probably bail at 20km. Sorry for wasting your time.”
It was 4am and I was in the parking lot of the Virgin Active in George. In a few minutes, I was about to recce the George 6 Peaks FKT Challenge route, solo. Not stoked. Fortunately, I had a guide for the first peak, or else I would have driven home.
My guide was Willem Haarhof. After a quick coffee, we were on our way to the top of Vensterberg (1,132m). As we hiked, I dwelled on the past. A week earlier, my goal run,
