Rodger Hoffman

Hey hey hey, Rodger is back at LightSpeed… Ouch, reality hits… There is life after the Cape Epic… Its been just over 2 weeks after my return from an awesome journey. I integrated my mind back into my normal LightSpeed routine. During the Cape Epic I slowly but surely developed a routine custom to the [...]

Team Bulls consist of teammates Karl Platt (30) and Stefan Sahm (30). I first met Karl Platt when I volunteered for my first Cape Epic in 2005. In 2005 I was asked to drive the mobile home of the 2004 Champion. I got to know Karl and his then partner Carsten Bresser pretty well; the [...]

Stage Summary Date: Tuesday, 31st March 2007 Route: Kleinmond to Lourensford Wine Estate, Somerset West Distance: 80km Elevation: 1285m

It has been a journey of note! I will carry fantastic memories away with me. I have been involved in a very different side of the Cape Epic this year doing presentations. I have one last presentation to complete and therefore need to make it a good one. Last night was seemless. I had to [...]

Stage 7 of the Cape Epic Date: Friday, 30th March 2007 Route: Villiersdorp to Kleinmond Distance: 116km Elevation: 1990m

Date: Thursday, 29th March 2007 Route: Montagu to Villiersdorp Distance: 111km Elevation: 1565m

I arrived in Kleinmond this morning at about 7:20am after driving through from Villiersdorp in the Camper Van. Once I had parked and got most things setup I decided to walk down to the race village and get some pictures. The sun looked awesome! It was past sun rise, but still hiding behind a small [...]

Date: Wednesday, 28th March 2007 Route: Barrydale to Montagu Distance: 102km Elevation: 1590m

I had an interesting situation last night. After the evening production I went to the chill zone to nurse a lonely bottle of “OomTas”. I interviewed a number of the people that were around the tent and got some great ideas for when I return. There are now all to many ideas to write today!

Day 5 of the Cape Epic was pretty good. I have been writing all of this content on my blog because it is great fun, but partly because I am trying out some emarketing research that I have been doing for the past year. I figured that it would be interesting if I could rank [...]

Date: Tuesday, 27th March 2007 Route: Ladismith to Barrydale Distance: 121km Elevation: 1285m

I am so excited about getting featured for the term Cape-Epic: http://wordpress.com/tag/cape-epic/ I am also starting to rank for various Cape Epic search terms! This is an exciting day for me. Thanks to whoever is reading my blog! Rodger Hoffman skips away in joy…

Date: Monday, 26th March 2007 Route: Oudtshoorn to Ladismith Distance: 128km Elevation: 2245m

Things got really mad after leaving Knysna as you can probably see from my previous blog posts on my Cape Epic experience. You are probably wondering how Crutonious and Rinnes from Team First Ascent Ndorfin.co.za have been doing?! They have been extremely scarce, so I have been unable to get very much to write about [...]

Date: Sunday, 25th March 2007 Route: Uniondale to Oudtshoorn Distance: 132km Elevation: 2245m

Date – Saturday, 24th March 2007 Route – Knysna to Uniondale Distance – 101km Elevation – 2660m

I was given a Dell Laptop for the Cape Epic evening shows. This laptop was supposed to be a certain spec so that I could fly through Google Earth routes properly. I even gave the guys the exact specification of what I needed, but instead they gave me exactly what I said that I did [...]

I did the PowerPoint slides perfectly for the presentation last night, but the Google fly through did not go as smoothly as I would have wanted. I botch things due to the fact that I got flustered when the Commentator changed his plan. He was supposed to do the entire route fly through and then [...]

Happy days! My good friends Crutonious Maximus Minimus and Rinnes Rinnenator Rinnemus have arrived in Knysna. Unfortunately for Crute he caught some flu near the end of last week, so they will have to take things easy for the first couple of days just to get a feel for things. Hopefully all will go hundreds [...]

I was stressing supremely about 2-3 hours ago due to not having a powerful enough laptop for the Google Fly Through. I finally found a power supply that fitted the laptop that one of the Cape Epic staff gave me to use. Now I am furiously caching Google Earth imagery. I am now focusing on [...]