It's a kinda magic

CLANWILLIAM 2007

2007-04-15T18:47:00.000+02:00

The best weekend of the year, every year, ever is about five and a half months away.

Official race day date: 29.09.2007

Camp sites have been booked!

It's going to be bigger and better than ever before!

Riche

The best weekend away every year....ever!!

2006-10-03T22:03:00.001+02:00

Team Flag

Saturday the 30th of September 2006 saw running of the 20th Clanwilliam Freshpak Fitness Festival. The EARN YOUR athletes have been to the last six triathlon weekends and it definitly goes down as the biggest best yet.

I think i'm correct in saying that there were record numbers of athletes competing in the events on the day. All in all 1150 athletes competing in the 3km long swim, iron kids, duathlon, biathlon and of course the main event the triathlon. A truly fantastic effort from all involved and a very special event to be a part of.

The 3km long swimmers

The weekend for the Earn Your athletes was about so much more than just the triathlon though. The first 8 of the Earn Your clanwilliam Triathlon Team made their way up to the dam on Wednesday afternoon, lead up there by Mr Clanwilliam and the Super Smasherman, close behind were the likes of Ten Four Moses and the Leaping Hatt-Trick, Pikki Nickard, a C a C a CFT, Riche and Beef.

Some Wednesday night vibe

It didn't take long to set up the base camp that would later dominate weekend in every aspect, we took with us, two draught machines, six kegs of beer, white picket fences, umbrella's, tressel tables. All of which was the culmination of months of planning and became the most incredible vibe area ever, the vibe area was later topped off with hay bales which were collected in clanwilliam. All of this went into the Tuffy Vito, and special thanks must go to Jonathan Duffett - Tuffy Brands for sponsoring the vehicle. Thank you Jonathan!!!

The YARD resting next to the draught machines

Mr Clan and Moses unloading the hay bales

The vibe area

The Tuffy Vito packed to the brim

Wednesday evening saw the athletes enjoying a hard fought braai and some ice cold SAB draught beers, things got very rowdy very quickly when Beef pulled out the Royal Bank of Scotland YARD glass and we were all attacked by the YARD SHARK. Everyone had a song sung and sank a yard or two, watching for the 'kick' of course. It was not long before Ze German/eastern Lithuanian contingent came to tell us we were a bunch of apes, and the night came to a halt at about 1:30am.

The YARD was probably the find of the weekend. It was presented to everyone who arrived as they were stepping out of their cars and got the vibe going in a huge way. Well done Beef for bringing it up. I'm told it's been washed and put to bed now for a long long time.

Matt the janitor hitting the YARD

Thursday morning saw the cristening of Super Smasher Gadget King Duffett's new Panache. The athletes were on the boat drinking champagne by 7:00am, the water was glassy and by far the best wakeboarding/skiing conditions of the weekend.

The champers that cristened the panache

in the green room - only a surfer knows the feeling

Cute Miles

Smash hitting some huge air

The superman gone wrong

Hatt-Trick - airborn

Hatt-Trick showing the way with the verve

CFT soaking up the magic

Milo on the wakeboard, Beef having a laugh with the verve and moses

The 250 Evinrude

Shortly after the cristening ceremony the Team Cobra contingent made an appearance with Kaasenova and Matt the Janitor arriving to set up the Piz Buin and Cobra sponsored Upper Constantia region of the campsite.

Upper Constantia

Thursday evening saw the arrival of 9 more EARN YOUR athletes including the likes of stalwarts B-Dog and The Stoner first timers Doorsie, Pocahontas, and The Large Mouth Bass, not long after Dodgy Zebra, Mo, Camel Toe and Rashburgur made their appearance. The YARD SHARK was presented to all and Thursday nights festivites kicked off.

Friday things began to get a little more choatic as some serious troops started to roll in. Play/Pause/Eject, Dallas, Sweedish, Glitter Tits, Cowie Pie, Salamada, Jilly Bean, Fetch, Deedee, Alchoholier, The Aviator, Wingsnake, Smurf, Cruiky, Mems, Kate, Bucky 44, Henkes, Banger, Spoed, V-C squared, Greg-o, Sebastian, Astie, Mark, Mel, Sean, Rich, Crystal, Dj Gav, Gill, Phil, Mark, Richard, Nick, Jimmy, Moira, Tamar, Inky, Pappy, Jax, Helen, Ben and Maaaaaarty all pulling into the site with force.

Maaaaarty brought up a box of lanyards with the official Marty designed and printed athlete accreditaion. The vibe started to kick off properly with everyone getting either a green or red lanyard depending on weather or not they were a go. The YARD SHARK got a serious beating as the camp champ and vibe awards were created. Rashburgur picked up the first camp champ award for the fastest YARD, and it wasn't long before the Large Mouth Bass, Bucky 44 and others were having their go as the camp champ.

Alcholier - Camp champ

The Vibe award was also created when Pocahontas was having a YARD and there was a little left in the bubble, Riche went to take the YARD back and was given serious bat. Poca finished the yard and the vibe award was created. It was then awarded for tremdous effort within the campsite throughout the weekend.

The duck award was created when Milo got everyone to stop what they were doing to look at the biggest duck he'd ever seen. The duck turned out to be a large white swan. Milo recieved the duck award for having a shocker. It was soon passed on, but not long before Milo was writing on his lanyard and came up with "CLANWILLIAM - IT'S A KINDA MAGIG" - brilliant!

Cruiky arrived at around 9pm on the Friday evening and had with him the Bunker Boy shirts. A secondary shirt handing over ceremony and YARD awarding took place on the hay bales. Huge vibe with 50 athletes singing songs and receiving their shirts.

Jax at the hand over

Mo at the hand over

The aviator at the handover

Poca with the vibe award at the hand over

Dodgy Zebra

Bucky 44

Fetch

Doorsie

All this was going on while Maaaaarty aka Braai-Man-Dela was whipping up a storm on the braai. Maaaarty played out of his boots this weekend, braaiing for 60 people with ease, creating vibe fires, the lanyards, and so much more. Awesome effort Maaarty. Thanks boet!!

Braai - Man - Dela

Maaaaaaaarty

Vibe fire

Friday night was chaos in the vibe area after the shirts were handed out, everyone had had a YARD, everyone was singing songs. Jilly-Bean and Deedee put on quite an impressive performance with some bra dancing around the hay bales, there was music coming from cars, games of strip ching chong cha going on in tents, it was all happening - all kindsa magic.

Smash getting some lovin

Salamada and the Cowie Pie

Sebastian, Doorsie, Rashburgur and Riche

Friday night vibe

Jilly-bean and Deedee getting out of hand

Hand over - over!!

What you got there Milo

Saturday was the culmination of the weekend. The last of the troops, namely B-Dogg, Monnies, CBFZ, Lucky Luc and DB rolled in as the athletes were tweaking bikes, getting into speedo's, registrering for the event, B-dog, Mo, Fetch and Kieron all competed in the 3km long swim and Mark and Greg-o both competed in the biathlon in the morning.

Riche cooked another proper breakfast, while being interviewed by the Supersport/World of endurance camera man, The leaping Hatt-Trick also had an extensive interview about his training regeime. Maaaaarty the Party put on a show for the camera man, pulling out his now famous blue steel. Lets hope the editors put some of that banter on the weekend wrap up program.

The media cam at breakfast

Team Earn Your Clanwilliam Triathlon - AWESOME!!!

Out of the 70 strong Earn Your group, there where a number of athletes competing in both the individual and team triathlon events. The Earn Your athletes had 8 teams competing and they were the Team Leaping Mantees with B-Dog, Smash and Mr Clanwilliam. Team Cobra with Kaasenova, CBFZ and Dj Gav. Team Doorsies Angels with The Large Mouth Bass, Pocahontas and Doorsie. B-Dogg, Camel Toe and Monnies. CFT, Sebastian and Katie. Fetch, Maaarty and Deedee. Mems, Cruiky and Crystal.

The girls with pom poms - That's proper support

Maaarty, Rash, Milo and Bucky44 vibing on race day

Hatt- Trick, Moses and Alcholier lining up

The Leaping Manatee's

Doorsie and Play/Pause

There were also 19 individual athletes, Alchoholier, Beef, Hatt-Trick, Pikki Nickard, Moses, Riche, Tamar, Mo, Dodgy Zebra, Henkes, Spoed, both V-C's, Greg-o, Banger, Banksie, Mandy, Dave Winter, Aubrey.

The swimmers lining up

An unbelievable effort from all involved. Huge thanks to all the supporters as well. It was sensational to run past the campsite and see the pom poms fluttering in the wind and hearing all the cheering. Thanks to Kristi for making the pom poms.

The YARD SHARK attacked all the athletes again hard after the race, the athletes all got stuck in again with a mini prize giving on the hay bales before making their way into the marquee tent for the official prize giving where we once again dominated. Cruiky, Pikki Nickard, Mems, Katie all won lucky draw prizes and Riche got a New Balance hamper, thanks to Rashburgur for having a word with the voice of sport.

The party in the tent kicked off like never before, the dance floor was packed, the DJ was excellent and the vibe was tremendous. Unfortunately due to council regulatiosn the bar closed early at 12 and the DJ had to shut off at 12:30. The party was absolutley heaving at this stage and it was dissapoitning to see it end. The earn your team quickly headed back to the campsite and kicked off the after party which went on untill the rain brought it to an end at about 3:30am.

Maarty, Glitter Tits, CBFZ and Pikki Nickard in the tent

Pix and Doorsie

Glitter, Hatt, B-Dogg and Lucky Luc

Luc, Pix, CBFZ, Monnies, Riche and B-Dogg

Rash doing the sprinkler

DB makes a late charge with Sebastian

Huge vibe in the tent

Huge vibe

Sunday saw the athletes clearing up and heading home. Riche was collecting finances, which worked out perfectly, so thanks to everyone for getting their cash in. Fetch stepped up to the plate and cooked one of the best breakfasts Clanwilliam has ever seen. Next year with Riche and Fetch will have to have a cook off for the King of the breakfast rights.

All in all one of the best weekends away ever, certainly the biggest Clanwilliam Triathlon weekend yet.

Big thanks to Milo, Maaarty, Beef and Smasher for all their efforts on the weekend. Maaarty did not stop working all weekend, Smash worked incredibly hard before and during the weekend, prepping the boat, taking people for ski's, organising kegs etc. Milo and Beef were always on hand to help out and created a huge part of the vibe throughout. Thanks must actually go out to everyone who was there. Everyone contributed in some way or another to make it such a special weekend and it wouldn't have been the same without everyone who was there.

Clanwilliam 2007 is only 362 days away and I can't wait for it.

The post is coming

2006-10-03T09:04:00.000+02:00

Athletes,

The report on the best weekend away every year ever is on it's way, i promise. With four days of chaos and 70 athletes away for a weekend it's taking a while to get it all down.

I do have something to keep you guys going until the post is up though, Debbie "Dallas" Derman has put up some awesome photo's and video's from the weekend on her blog. www.derman.blogspot.com

Thanks Deb's!!

All the other photo's and stories will be up soon.

Clanwilliam - It's a kinda ~~magig~~ magic!!

The Vibe is awasome!!

2006-09-28T17:47:00.000+02:00

Pix on the boat drinking champers to welcome the new boat

More champers on the boat - such a vibe!!!

Guys, the Super Smasher Gadget King has got his 3G card here and we thought we'd like to give a quick look at the vibe.

It's Thursday evening and there are 10 of us here at the moment, and 8 more on the way.

The sun is creeping behind the hills and setting over the dam, the draught is flowing and life is good.

Hope to see you guys up here soon.

Clanwilliam - It's a kinda magic!

The day has arrived

2006-09-27T11:34:00.000+02:00

Guys the vito is packed, work is wrapping up or being pushed aside.

The bunker boy shirts are being re-made and will be ready on Friday at 5pm, the logo has been changed slightly as has the colour.

I am hoping/praying/wishing that they now come out perfectly.

Can't wait to see everyone up there.

Hope all the ahtletes are ready!

ONE MORE SLEEP!!!!!!!

2006-09-25T20:59:00.001+02:00

Sunday evening saw about 35 athletes gather at the Western Province Cricket Club for the shirt handing over ceremony.

There was much hype, banter and vibe talk between the athletes as the excitement levels were reaching fever a pitch.

Andre vk - aka Kaasenova - aka ondo's - Team cobra captain - his 4th or 5th trip up to the dam! Usually is the director of the international contingent - last year brought the great danes up - will be interesting to see what he comes up with this year - apparently he's been hanging out at the backpackers in town telling foreign girls that clanwilliam is as big as Roskilde - which is the biggest music festival in Europe.

Andrew the Hatt Hatt Hatt -Trick - aka the Hatt-Trick - debut this year - competing in the whole tri - going up on the Wednesday - pipped to be right up there in the vibe and the tri stakes. along with dave moseley, smasher and myself probably one of the more excited members of the team. also the hatt-trick is the master of the leaping salmon, a dance trick that he'll have to teach milo in the tent this year.

Bridge Bassage - aka Bass - debutante at this years event - competing in the team event with Megz and doorsie - has been spotted on the mountains with doors (not sure if it's collecting wood or training for the tri) bass has also been in the pool at planet fitness, and is looking good for the race. she is however banned from drinking red wine on race day as we'll all be in our shirts.

Megan Carkeek- aka Megz - another debutante at this years event - competing in the team event with Bridge and doorsie, went on a training ride with her yesterday and the team is looking strong for for the tri - will be intersting to see if they can get into the team manatee v team cobra battle and spice things up a little.

Claude Hofmann - aka Pappy - This experienced campagner has been to the dam on 2 previous occasions. Huge part of the weekend vibe, well usually, last year he spent the entire race day somewhere between his tent and the ablution blocks - has just been out in oz and is looking good to bounce back this year on the vibe front.

DJ Gav - Team cobra runner - voted the most colourful athlete at last years event. Will be taking on team manatee runner milo brown who mentioned he may be pushing the 18minute 5km barrier this year. Dj Gav has been putting his running training off lately for some time in the squash court, but team cobra tell me they may have a secret weapon on the bike this year to lead Dj gav out ahead of milo on the run leg

Jackie Sutherland - aka Jax - Jax's 3rd time up to the dam, yet to compete in the tri, but a vital cog in the clanwilliam weekend machine - had her bday on race day 2 years ago and enjoyed upwards of 35 happy bday songs from morning to night. Also just back from Oz and will be heading up on the friday afternoon to soak up the magic.

Jen Mullins - aka CFT - chick from town - aka a C a C a CFT - CFT's making her debut this year - no doubt will be a huge part of the vibe - has been doing some serious swimming training at the constantia virgin active and is competing Philippa and Katie, who are in hermanus tonight, but both amped for the clan weekend. the CFT is also heading up on the wednesday night to make the most of the magic

Matt Wilkinson - aka matt the janitor - matt is another one of the stalwarts in clanwilliam - Matt was lined up for the cycle leg but has had to step into the position of Team Cobra manager - We have to give huge thanks to matt as he is the director of shirt logo design - thanks boet, matt's heading up with the kaasenova on the thursday morning, leaving at five to make it up in time for breakfast i'm told.

Myles Brown - Milo - Mr Clanwilliam - team manatee member - where do I start with milo - he has been up to clan for the last three years and he's basically made the weekend his own. Whether it be stealing hobbie cats, breakdancing with the locals, doing back flips off the bar, running 19min 5kms, breaking down trees, or who knows what the list goes on, definitely a team member to keep and eye on - also Milo is the director of weekend hype and vibe and more importantly director of the bar, which i think is going to be unbelievable on race day

Sally Green - aka the salamader - sal is on debut in clan this year - she was meant to come up last year, but pulled out at the last minute- sal was a little sceptical about having salamader on her shirt as she thought a salamader was a kind of rat - Sal is heading up on the friday and is bound to be a huge part of the vibe with her trade mark laugh being heard all over the campsite

Jill Marais - aka Jilly Bean - another debutante at the dam this year - Jill wanted me to remind all the boys to kindly pack their six packs - Jill's also heading up on friday afternoon - she not competing in the tri this year but I am absolutely certain that she will be competing with Milo for the vibe award in the tent on the sat night

Simon Duffett - aka the gadget king - aka smash - Smash is possibly the most experienced clanwilliam campagner in the room - with this being his sixth consecutive triathlon weekend. I must make mention of the fact that he has come right every year except last year, i hear he's looking to bounce back this year and make amends - Smash is the director of pre-weekend logistics, banking, watersports entertainment and draught, he has raised his watersports directorship to a new level this year with the purchase of a new panache boat, basically smash is a huge huge part of this annual weekend, and it probably wouldn't happen with out him, so a huge thank you for all the efforts boet

Stephen Backhouse - aka koppie - aka Doorsie - debut for doorsie this year - doorsie is competing in the ~~walking~~ running leg with bridge and megz - doorsie has stepped up to the position of Director of wood collection and was seen putting in some serious practice on that front in misty cliff's a few months ago- doorsie will be another huge part of the vibe and is coming up for the magic on the thursday night - top effort buck

Mariam Haroun - Aka Mal - Mal has made one appearance at clanwilliam in 2003 and is making a come back this year - She is available as a runner for any team should anyone need a runner. As a fellow mountain goat i can personally vouch for her ability to run hard on the back of a screaming hangover - we're still hoping she'll come even though there is talk of the rocking the daisy's taking preference over the greatest weekend of the year every year ever

Dave Moseley - aka MOSES - aka ten four roger that over over over- dave is making his debu and is backing himself to chanllenge for the Mr Clanwilliam spot - huge vibe emulates from this athlete - another one fo the few extreme athletes competing in the whole tri and one of the lucky ones going up on the wednesday - also probably one of the most excited athletes in the room - OVER

Kristi le marquand - aka glitter tits - another debutante this year - kristi wont be competing in the tri but as I said earlier and as i'll say again, don't ever underestimate the power of a good support crew - so kristi has stepped up to the directorship of support - she has already made the pom poms and will be getting the ladies going on the side lines. awesome effort Kristi - can't wait to see it

Nikki Pickard - aka Nix aka Nikki pickard nikki nikki pickard -Pix's first comment on the shirts was "these are the ugliest things i've ever seen" but she now informs me that she loves them - pix is making her debut this year, and she falls into the elite group of those going up on the Wednesday and those doing the whole triahtlon, Pix has also been my swimming, running and cycling training partner - so thanks for that Nikki Pix.

Inness Mallett Mass - aka FETCH - Inness is making his debut in clannies this year, he has been spotted at the sea point pool getting some training in. Is competing in the tri with lauren and marty, and will be heading up on Friday afternoon.

Lauren Devine - aka Deedee - Lauren is another debutante at this years triathlon weekend, she's also been spotted at the pool, with inness, Deedee is competing with Inness and Maaaaaarty.

Ash Larter - aka Sebastian - Sebastian is Ash's alter ego, I'm not too familiar with sebastian, but I hear he's pretty special, larter is on debut as well, is hoping to compete but still looking for a swimmer and a cyclist. Ash will be a huge part of the vibe, is going up on the Friday and will no doubt attempt several speeches through out the weekend, most of which will be in broken xhosa

Marty van Staden - aka marty the party - aka Maaaaarty - Marty made his debut last year and wasted no time in getting into the swing of things. He dominated fire making and braaing, captured many a choice moment with the Maaaarty cam, and has been doing some quality work behind the scenes leading up to this years event. director of the braai and corperate sponsorships

Sue Koller - aka play/pause/eject - sue is on debut this year - she's just moved back from overseas and is loving the cape town vibe again - she isn't competing but will hopefully pick up a pom pom and get stuck in with the support crew

Debbie Derman - aka The dermanator - aka dallas - aka debbie does da athletes - debbie is on debut this year , she has also just moved back from overseas and is amped for the weekend - will be heading up on the Friday evening - will definitely be spotted in the tent with the trademark finger on the head twist manouver

Bern Sellmeyer - aka b-dog - bern is another one of the seasoned campagners in clanwilliam - he is stalwart team big guns and team manatee's swimmer - has been spotted at the sea point pool lately putting in some training time- is coming up on the wednesday and will be a huge part of the weekend vibe

There are plenty of photo's from the handing over ceremony and they'll be up soon.

The people are amped, the kegs of beer have been ordered, the weather is looking good.

It's going to be tremendous!!!!!!

Clanwilliam - It's a kinda magic!

Shirt handing over ceremony this Sunday!

2006-09-20T16:52:00.001+02:00

Please all try to get to the shirt handing over ceremony this sunday at the WPCC off Avenue de Mist in Rondebosch kicking off at 5pm.

Shirts are being delivered on Friday, amped to see how they have come out. Thanks again to our new friends at Bunker Boy, cheers Mike.

9 more sleeps

2006-09-17T20:54:00.000+02:00

Team big guns vs Team XXX

Glass water

Proper breakfast

Swimmers lining up!

My word, the days are racing by. Clannies is going to be here in no time.

Watersports entertainment

2006-09-15T15:23:00.000+02:00

Isn't she a beauty!!

look at that engine - huge!!

Spice!

Here's a look at Smasher's new Panache!

Awesome!

Milo finishing in style

2006-09-14T17:19:00.000+02:00

Mr Clanwilliam finishing his 19minute 5km in style!

Clanwilliam draws near!!

2006-09-06T21:57:00.000+02:00

Pappy enjoying the heat!
Carole the blond and a couple of brunettes
I love, no I LOVE the traditions
The vibrant colour of Clanwilliam
Team xxx, now team cobra warming up

Clanwilliam is drawing near folks. Just 21 days to go for those going up on the Wednesday night.

The committee strat meetings have been highly successful and there are all sorts of surprises that could come out on race day to raise the level!!

I hope the training is going well, and the tents and camping chairs are being borrowed as the weekend approaches!

Clanwilliam - The best weekend away every year ever!!

2006-09-02T09:01:00.000+02:00

Note the exposed bum, hobie that got stolen by milo, julia and salt and the dic-sco tent
earn your breakfast taking shape
watersports entertainment
team 110kg manatee's
victory is shhwwweeeeeeeeet

The time is drawing near for the best weekend away ever!! Sat 30th September will see a huge team of 'EARN YOUR' athletes descending on the banks of the Clanwilliam Dam for another spectacular weekend!

With a whopping 49 people now confirmed for shirts the weekend is looking like it's going to be bigger and better than ever before!!

There are about six extreme clanwilliamers heading up there on the Wednesday nite to ensure prime camping position for total domination!!

There have been several committee strat meetings and the following portfolio's have been awarded.

Dave - Director of shirts, general pre-weekend hype/vibe and breakfasts!!

Smash - Director of watersports entertainment and pre-weekend logistics!!

Andre vk - Director of the International contingent, and team cobra captain!!

Matt - Director of shirt logo design!!

Milo - Director of weekend vibe and the bar!!

Beef - Director of draught!!

Maaaaaaaaaaaarty - Director of braaing and corperate sponsorship!!

Email me if you'd like a portfolio drr99@hotmail.com