South Africa’s most successful desert runner is a shooting star. Ryan Sandes from Capetown came out of nowhere when in 2008, he scored a start-to-finish victory at the „4 Deserts Gobi March”… Gripmaster got to go for a run with him on Sandman’s rest day for a few hours and used the opportunity for a [...]

Today I went for a run with a guy whose photo is in the current issue of GQ magazine! Yeah right, you say.. who might that be? Is Di Caprio jogging on the beach? Did some supermodel residing in Camps Bay give the Gripmaster a call to ask me to come over for a run [...]

or : “Le Géant de Provence”. That’s what Mont Ventoux is called, that 1909m high collection of rocks in the middle of an otherwise relatively flat piece of land…. But today, the Giant of Provence is called Tom Owens. Tom is from England. But he lives in Scotland. He’s a fell runner. When we run [...]

This man is truly mad. A clinical study conducted by myself has come to this irrevocable conclusion. Judge for yourself: -He drove me around in his Land Rover through the local wildlife reserve of his hometown pretending that we might meet a giraffe! (OK, fact is, we found two! They were walking around freely and [...]

A few years ago, this guy who calls himself „The Powerhammer“ (well, we always call him that, so what can he do..?), invited me to join him for a 140km trail race in Croatia. When I mentioned that I wasn’t really that well in shape that summer and that 140km was quite a long distance [...]