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03 / Off the bench

Running.

Social running, mostly 10 km road races around Durban. It is the same habit as the bench work: show up, measure, repeat, and do not skip the boring sessions.

04 races40 km raced10 km distanceDurban · South Africa

10 km

Hollywood Bets

10 km

ABSA Run Your City

10 km

Ntenga Foundation

10 km

Garmin

Hollywood Bets 10 km

10 km · Durban

A flat, fast coastal route and the first race that made the distance feel routine rather than a one-off.

Hollywood Bets 10 km race photograph
Hollywood Bets 10 km finish

ABSA Run Your City 10 km

10 km · Durban

The big city race: crowds on the pavement, a live band at the turn, and a route that shows a side of Durban you do not see from a car.

ABSA Run Your City 10 km race photograph
ABSA Run Your City 10 km medal

Ntenga Foundation 10 km

10 km · Durban

A community race with a cause behind it. Smaller field, harder course, and the one where the last two kilometres are mostly mental.

Ntenga Foundation 10 km race photograph
Ntenga Foundation 10 km medal

Garmin 10 km

10 km · Durban

The one where the watch data became useful: pacing, splits and the realisation that starting slower is faster.

Garmin 10 km race photograph
Garmin 10 km medal and finish

Keep looking

Back to the bench.

The engineering work is where the detail lives: analogue circuits, PCB builds, signals, software and an energy study that had to survive a sensitivity analysis.

Studying · happy to help with projects
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