Blue Eye and The Manhunt Boys

Some of the guys were lucky enough to pick up a eye wear sponsor from a young up and coming brand in SA. Blue Eye have been launched in SA a few months ago By Jurgen Rojahn and already have caused a bit or a stir. They have some of the best polarized lenses in the business, go check them out.

Here is Brandon Sacks of the Bar-one Manhunt wearing a pair with me in Dubai.

World’s Tallest Building

I recently got the chance to see the worlds tallest building in Dubai, Thanks to the Bar-one Manhunt TV show.

And boy is it impressive, see this chart to give you some idea of what i am talking about.

It is so amazing. Its the first time in my life that i have experienced looking at a building then needing to take a few steps backwards and then look up again because the first time i looked i couldn’t see the top. I didn’t get the change to go inside but apparently it has Offices, Flats, Hotel and Shopping center.

Its so tall that i couldn’t get it into a picture. I am not 100% sure of the height but it is in the region of around 2400ft or 745m tall as just how height it is was kept a secret until its been finished.

$ 715 a shot of this….No really….

So thanks to Nestle and Bar-one Manhunt i was lucky enough to spend the weekend in Dubai and at Duty free you see all the usual stuff and some f the prices are great and then some arent that great.

But this this little bad boy caught my eye, its a 1.5L of Cognac and see what the price tag was.

At around 56 shots inside you looking at $ 715 a shot or R 5362 here at home.

Wonder what it tastes like ?

Boys on Bikes moments before… ” I told you so….”

Guys love adventure, most of us have that little screaming boy inside of us telling us to do things even when the adult inside of us says that we shouldn’t . OUr little screaming inner child is normally egged on by your best friends telling you that you can do it.

These two pictures remind me of just that moment before it all goes Pear shape, I think if i look at that Kid on the BMX i can see some of my mate sin the crowd telling him that he can do it.

Speed Machine with a Difference

I saw this on a international website and thought it was pretty cool, look at how well it is finished and i think if you had to throw a nice set of wheels on it and get down and dirty it would be pretty fast.

Not to mention everybody looking at you, so its just my kind of Bike, because if you can’t be first be on TV.

Scariest thing i have ever done

I have been very blessed and luck to do a lot of cool stuff in my life, then Bar-one Manhunt came along and have helped me cross a lot more of my bucket list things off too.

But this was just super crazy, its called the Leap of Faith and it was the scariest thing i have ever done in my life.

DON”T miss this weeks show, Wednesday night, SABC 3 at 8.30pm and then don’t forget to vote as well to help me win.

You can sms Bar-one and Collin A to 34704 at a cost of R 2 a sms and you can vote as often and many times as you like.

10 000 Friends to run Great Wall Marathon

So i was talking to a potential advertisor and friend for the new magazine we publishing, Triathlon Plus SA and we were argueing about the power of Viral Marketing like Blogs, Twitter, Facebook etc.

I said its a great way to go to grow brand awareness etc and he said he didnt think it worked.

Then he gave me a challenge and this is how it is going to work.

Rule # 1 : I can only Use Blogs, Twitter , Facebook to complete the Challenge

Rule # 2 : I have to end up with 10 000 Friends either on Twitter or on Facebook to win the Challenge

Rule # 3 : I only have the my Birthday month to do it, So from 1st March till 31st March

If i get this right he will pay for me to go and run the Great Wall of China Marathon which i really want to do.

So here is how you can help me :

• Click Here to add me as a friend on Facebook : Collin Bradley Allin
• Click Here to follow me on twitter : Collin Bradley Allin

Then get your friends to come to my site and do they same or post it up as your status, or twitter it. Lets show him that the underground in alive and well.

Lucky i already have a head start, so only 8900 odd to go.

Have a great Weekend

Puma Phone, I want one please

Found this on one of my favourite sites Urban Ninja

Designed by Puma and Sagem Wireless, the Puma Phone is an “active smartphone,” offering the expected features — like mobile Internet, messaging, GPS localization, video calling, Bluetooth, a 2.8 inch touch screen, a 3.2 megapixel camera with LED flash, music player, and 3G — as well as sport-minded niceties like GPS, a compass, a pedometer, GPS tracker, and stopwatch. Oh, and it’s got a built-in solar cell for charging when you’re out on the trail, at the track, or just relaxing by the pool.

Please can i have one, pretty Please

Run a Marathon up a wall ?

This has been on my list of things to do for ages now and since i am crossing them off at a furious pace thanks to the Bar-one Manhunt i thought i might as well continue to do so.

I present to you the Great Wall of China Marathon, 6th September and i think we should go and run it, who is keen on joining me ?

There website is : Great wall Run its in German i think ? but am trying to figure out how to get it to English. I think it would be one of the most amazing things i have ever done or will do.

Bar-one 4×4 very interesting

So tonight’s episode we will be 4×4 with the Nissan Nivara’s which proved to be a lot tricker than you would think as the course they gave us to do was insane.

Lots of laughs during the day and then a elimination at night which always sucks, be sure to tune in tonight on SABC 3 at 8.30pm to see who wins and who goes.

and remember to keep smsing ” Bar-one and Collin A ” to 34704

Why no SA beer ?

I have just returned from Zambia and i have been lucky enough to visit 3 African countires in 3 months thanks to the Bar-one Manhunt TV Show. The one thing you get in every African country i have visited is a Beer  with the name of where you are.

This is something we don’t do here in SA. I mean every tourist when in that African country drinks that local beer because that is what you do when you in a different country. But here we do offer local beer and we do have all the other imported beer, but no Cape Town Lager if you know what I mean ?

With all the tourists coming through maybe there is a real gap here in the market for one ?

Hmmm…i am off to investigate. Watch this space people.

Lance vs Lieto in Hawaii

It’s Happening in around 4hrs…

see this article on www.examiner.com

Marathon’s Hurt like a mother….

So i worked out this morning that i have averaged 14km per week of running for the last 12 weeks incl today’s marathon.

Its a joke actually how much i haven’t been running and due to the Bar-One Manhunt TV that i am on, we are filming every weekend for the next 6 or 7 and wasn’t going to have time to qualify for comrades, so i had to run one at the drop of the hat today on valentines day.

I survived and survived well, i only started feeling a lot of pain around 38km and then the last 4km were really sore, but more joint and ankle pain from being on my feet so long as i haven’t been running at all.

I ran a PB, as it was my first stand alone marathon i have ever done and the only other one i have done was in a Ironman and i ran 4hr 39min. Today i ran the course in the howling wind and rain in 3hr 56 min which i am very proud of.

The only reason i was able to do this was good pacing during the race, i didn’t push it or care when big women were running past me, good equipment on the day and then lots of good base HR biking in December. I managed to keep my HR around 145 bpm the whole way which is about 70% of my sustainable max for me and still be strong. I would of been even stronger if i didn’t do a 2hr MTB yesterday but hey, you only live once, right ?

I ran in double layer compression tights, from Under Armour which i thought was going to be a overkill, but they were so super comfy and didn’t bother me at all during race, i also used there Compression socks and under long sleeve. I wore there clima cool cap as well. I rocked my Puma Tenos shoes which are my favourite in the puma range and have been ever since i got a set 4 years ago. I also used my custom Oakley radars to bring me home.

Another small piece of equipment i used was my Power Balance and i must say i felt strong most of the way and was able to hold my form a lot longer than i expected and believe that it gave me the edge.

If you interested here is my data from the day :

• Avg HR for the day was 149 bpm, i really started to run harder near the end to make sure i broke 4hrs

• 3271 Calories Burnt for run

• I took 5km run splits according to the boards : 29:28 ; 28.02 ; 26:41 ; 28:53 ; 27:07 ; 27:36 ; 28:13 ; 28:19 the first one was slower cause we were running through people and the faster one had long down hill but pretty consistant.

• My nutrition plan was light breakfast, a KORU every hour from the start, i only started coke around 18km and beofre that was only water. Once i started coke i hit a cup every table and made sure i walked the whole table. I also popped 1 myprodol at 21km which was awesome.

So there you go, was 1 hell of experience and i qualified for comrades which is going to be a whole nother mother, now i think its time i start doing some more running, thats once i can walk again of course.

See you on the road

To Dive or Not to dive…

So if you know me then you know that i have been talking about doing this for ages. But the thing is besides the money you have to pay to do it, you then also need to jump out of a plane.

But as luck would have it, i have been given the chance to do it with the Bar-one Manhunt TV show and man are you in for a surprize on wednesday night show, SABC 3 at 8.30pm

Don’t see what happens to me.

Bar-one Manhunt Sneak Preview

This is Brandon Sacks, contestant on the Bar-one Manhunt TV show on SABC 3 on wednesday nights at 8.30pm, tune in next week to see what we were doing.

Enjoy the giggle.