John

Hodophile,kinesthetic language, free child that loves nature, proud Dad, casual wine lover, trying to be the person my dog thinks I am

[John @rademan666]

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“𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 '𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴'. 𝘞𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘫𝘶𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵.”

— 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘛𝘢𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘪

[X Mayor of Durban @LuckyGordy]

Story Time: Looking back 13 years and The Serviette That Re-Engineered My Life
At 40 years old, my system failed. Five operations in one year. Low energy. Constant setbacks. And without even realising it… I had accepted the default setting: “This is just what getting older looks like.” No redesign. No challenge. Just slow decline.
Then one moment changed everything. It wasn’t planned. I saw a friend on Twitter cycling in a cow suit in the 947 in Johannesburg and asked her what on earth she was doing. She mentioned that she was raising money for kids with cancer and belonged to an organization called “the Cows”.
Quote fortuitously they were launching in KZN in two weeks’ time, and she said she thought I should join them to hear what it was all about. Sadly said friend died of cancer a few years later. Rest in Peace Delene Mulley.
Two weeks later I made a decision that would transform my life forever.
I was sitting with a group of likeminded individuals and listening to a guy called Cordy talk about how he changed his life by doing tough things and how “The Cows” was started by 6 friends who’s mates had just lost their daughter to cancer. Collectively and wanted to give back to CHOC, The Children’s Cancer Foundation of South Africa.
The very organization that helped Grant and Kerrin Bain through th nightmare of losing their kid to cancer. The 6 friends decided to get outfits and ride the 947 to raise money and awareness for the incredible work CHOC does for kids suffering from cancer and their families. The only 6 outfits they could find were literal Cow suits, udders and all. And so the Cows were born.
Then it happened. Cordy challenged all of us to think about a challenge that never in our wildest dreams we would not attempt. We grabbed a serviette and started thinking. and jokingly called it a “legally binding document.”
A guy called Peter Stone said he wanted to do a Half Ironman and I unwittingly asked what that was. Each of us wrote down a challenge than we thought we could not achieve.
Mine?
A Half Ironman. Which I learnt that night is a 1.8km Swim, followed by a 90km Cycle and a 21.1km half marathon. In six months’ time.
And if I didn’t do it the punishment was simple: A full Ironman.
I signed it.
Now, let’s be honest. From any logical perspective, this made absolutely no sense: A broken body, little or no base fitness, a massive goal and a six-month timeline.
It was irrational.
But what I didn’t realise at the time… was that I had just signed up for something powerful. A concept I would only understand years later.
It’s called a Misogi.
A Misogi is a Japanese idea. Traditionally, it’s about purification—a reset. But in modern terms, it means this: One challenge each year… so hard… it has a real chance of failure. Not comfortable. Not convenient. Something that forces you to confront your limits. And whether you succeed or fail. You come out different.
Six months later… I was standing at the start line with a good friend of mine Deon van Niekerk who was gullible enough to join me. That race wasn’t about performance; it was about survival.
The swim was chaos.
My heart rate was through the roof.
Everything in me was screaming STOP!!!!!

But I did something simple. I controlled my breathing. I stabilised the system. And I kept moving forward. And somewhere in that suffering… something shifted.
I realised the limits I had accepted… weren’t real.
That one moment… one decision… written on a serviette, changed everything.
Over the next 13 years, that decision turned into 10 000km:
- Amashova on a Road bike, Mountain Bike, Tandem with both my daughters, a 65kg Ice Cream bike with 1 gear, a hand cycle twice and a BMX twice
- 2 x Duzi Canoe Marathons
-Marathons, half marathons in fluffy cow suits
- 3 x Rhino Peak Challenges
-3 x Run for Rangers 100km trail runs
- Ironman events and countless triathlons
- Comrades Marathon last year
- 1000km Trans Karoo Ride this year from Clarens to Cape Town

And over the 10,000 kilometers of endurance challenges, Not because I suddenly became extraordinary, but because I kept choosing a new Misogi. I kept challenging the system. I kept redesigning what I thought was possible.
Here’s what I’ve learned:
If you want a different output, you don’t wish for it. You redesign the system.
A Misogi is personal system redesign… under real conditions.
Most people live within the limits they’ve tested.
A Misogi forces you to test those limits… and realise they were never fixed.
But over the entire time, it stopped being about proving something to myself and started becoming about impact.
One of the most powerful moments of that journey was leading a team of Cows at Midmar.
The first year: 35 swimmers - R40,000 raised
A few years later: 400 swimmers - Over R800,000 raised
Today, my focus has shifted even more as I stepped away from the Cows in 2020:
– Run for Rangers - Project Rhino and raising funds for the Rangers who put their lives on the line to protect our Wildlife
- Rhino Peak Challenge – Endangered Wildlife Trust – Protecting endangered species in Southern Africa
- Trans Karoo Spirit Ride from Clarens to Cape Town – For the Butterfly Home that gives Palliative Care to Orphaned and abandoned kids with life limiting diseases.

Across these journeys, we’ve helped raise millions for causes that matter.
And in every one of those events, the same truth shows up: You don’t find your limits… you expose them.
Looking back now, it wasn’t the races that changed me. It was the decision. To step into something uncomfortable. To challenge the design. To refuse the default setting.
Because the truth is: You don’t need a completely new life. You need a better-designed system. And sometimes… that redesign starts with something as simple as a decision.
Even one written on a serviette.

[John @rademan666]

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How tempting is this on a cold day at Kameel?

[John @rademan666]

@poobie_pillay @AfricanDream01 All depends on the rain

[John @rademan666]

Namakwaland.
📷 Jens Friis

[John @rademan666]

@Cardia_79 Great news

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[Nina 🐙 Byzantina @NinaByzantina]

The speed and shocking agility with which this East Siberian brown bear 🐻 in Khakassia, Russia 🇷🇺 swims and climbs a steep hill demonstrates that you always need to remember you’re in its home (not the other way around) and remain alert.

(The bear looks black out of the water, but it has a characteristic brown bear hump and a pointed nose.)

[B.C @BoitumeloCaleb]

€365 000 (R7 517 580) 😮‍💨🫣
Porsche B32: the rarest (and wildest) van ever to come out of Zuffenhausen In the mid 1980s, Porsche faced an unusual challenge: they needed a support vehicle to keep up with the 959 during long-distance testing and rally prep, but nothing on the market was fast or capable enough.
The solution? Take a Volkswagen T3 Caravelle, drop in a 3.2L flat-six from the 911 Carrera, and build a van that could chase supercars.

Enter the Porsche B32: an official Weissach-built prototype, assembled in extremely limited numbers (between 7 and 15 units, depending on the source).

3.2L flat-six – 231 hp (from the 911 Carrera 3.2)
RWD, 5-speed manual gearbox
Upgraded brakes, Fuchs wheels, revised suspension
911-inspired interior: Carrera gauges, Porsche steering wheel

0–100 km/h in 8.0 seconds
Top speed over 185 km/h
Used during the Paris-Dakar and custom-built for CEO Peter Schutz

From the outside, it looks like a regular van. But behind the wheel, it’s pure Porsche engineering, a sleeper with Stuttgart DNA. Today, it’s considered one of the rarest Porsche models ever made.

[Vehicle Trackers @VehicleTracker8]

Shocking dashcam footage captures truck barreling into fuel tanker on Durban’s M7

[Roberto @UniqueMongolia]

Updated Soviet legendary Niva (manufactured since 1977) has now a new steering wheel with an airbag, a modern multimedia system with a large screen, a redesigned center console. Engineers also replaced the 2 transmission control levers with a single one, 1.8-liter, 90-hp engine.

[Autosport @autosport]

You'll never be as cool as a Monaco fire marshal 🔥

[John @rademan666]

📷 Patrick Benjamin

[Everest Today @EverestToday]

Dawa Sherpa shortly after being found alive this morning on Everest, 04.06.2026 NPT. Video ©: Mingmar Sherpa.

[John @rademan666]

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[John @rademan666]

Difference between META AI and Grok.
Meta AI great with pictures but always seems to get wording mistakes. Even if you specify the mistake.
Grok free is limited on creating but gets it right first time

[Alice. Frikken Alice. 🚜 @frikken_alice]

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