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  • Ironman 70.3 Dubai 2022 – Race Report
  • The dark side of becoming an IronMan – mental health struggles (part 2b): 5 ways to support a loved one through it
  • The dark side of becoming an IronMan – mental health struggles (part 2a): 5 ways to manage as an athlete
  • The dark side of becoming an IronMan – mental health struggles (part 1)
  • A brief look back onto 2021
  • Ironman,  Triathlon

    Ironman 70.3 Dubai 2022 – Race Report

    Mar 31, 2022

    It’s been just under a month since I’ve raced Ironman 70.3 in Dubai on 5 March 2022, and I think I’ve recovered enough to be able to write a fairly objective race report. The race was a roller coaster of a ride for me, as races of this nature often are, but in a very unexpected way. I have heard only great things about this race before; itโ€™s a flat and fast course, the water is warm, the merchandise is great, the food is great, etc, etc. There was so much uncertainty about whether the race would take place, and…

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  • Ironman,  Triathlon

    The dark side of becoming an IronMan – mental health struggles (part 2b): 5 ways to support a loved one through it

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    Disclaimer: I have no medical background and nothing in this post should be construed as medical advice. Please consult your healthcare professional before making major decisions that could affect your long-term health. My 1st post in this mini-series spoke about…

    Jan 19, 2022
  • Ironman,  Triathlon

    The dark side of becoming an IronMan – mental health struggles (part 2a): 5 ways to manage as an athlete

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    Disclaimer: I have no medical background and nothing in this post should be construed as medical advice. Please consult your healthcare professional before making major decisions that could affect your long-term health. My previous post spoke about what post-race depression…

    Jan 19, 2022
  • Ironman,  Triathlon

    The dark side of becoming an IronMan – mental health struggles (part 1)

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    Disclaimer: I have no medical background and nothing in this post should be construed as medical advice. Please consult your healthcare professional before making major decisions that could affect your long-term health. For something that is so common amongst athletes,…

    Jan 18, 2022
  • Family & Friends,  Inspiration,  Professional

    A brief look back onto 2021

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    I’m not one to do year review blog posts often, but I am feeling drawn to look back onto 2021 because it has been transformative in many ways…many unexpected ways. A year ago, at the end of 2020, I finished…

    Dec 31, 2021
  • Travel

    When I did the world’s highest bungee jump

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    I am a bit of an adrenaline junkie. Well, compared to normal people at least. But until this week, I’ve never done an actual bungee jump. I’ve had the opportunity twice though. The 1st time was in 2005 when we…

    Dec 2, 2021
  • Inspiration,  Professional

    On #INWED21 and every other day, we are Stronger Together

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    Exactly a month ago to this day, on 23 June, it was International Women in Engineering Day. It is a day that celebrates females in the STEM fields. I had an incredibly busy day that day, and I worked until…

    Jul 23, 2021
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    13 Peaks

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    13 Peaksโ€ฆ What an incredible challenge! The luxury and privilege of having such pristine sections of trail and views that are the best in the world was something that we recognized as something to be taken advantage of.  What is…

    Nov 7, 2020
  • Book

    It’s a new dawn…and a SPECIAL OFFER

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    It’s time for the 1st new feature rollout of Roggie 4.0. My website has a new home! It’s at the same address but a new house so to speak. Rogeemakenny.com has been fully upgraded so that you can have a…

    Oct 26, 2020
  • Events

    Roggie 4.0 has landed

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    It’s my birthday today. I’m a whole 40 years old. I see it as a start of a new chapter in my life, and the closing of a very eventful decade… my 30s. When I turned 30, I was really…

    Oct 16, 2020
  • Community & Non-Profit,  Professional

    Paying it Forward in the Pandemic… Let’s Learn LinkedIn

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    We have just entered the 2nd half of 2020. The world is still in turmoil as the grip of the global COVID-19 pandemic shows no signs of easing up. In South Africa, we are almost 100 days into lockdown. While…

    Jul 1, 2020
  • Community & Non-Profit

    Paying it Forward – Education with a Difference

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    Since starting to work with Groenvlei HS in October 2019, the relationship I have with the school had deepened significantly. Even though my interactions Mr GA (the deputy principal) were usually short (either on the phone or when I visited…

    Jan 14, 2020
  • Community & Non-Profit

    Ari’s Angels & Light From Africa

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    Tonight I had the honour of delivering the keynote address at the Ari’s Angels induction and certification ceremony, supported by the Light From Africa Foundation. The ceremony was the culmination of a programme that the students of Groenvlei High School…

    Oct 17, 2019
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I swim, bike, run. I also speak, write, and do. I push limits and boundaries. I challenge the norm and defy the status quo. I break barriers.
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Happy birthday my dear sister @fadeelahk ๐Ÿ˜˜ Wis Happy birthday my dear sister @fadeelahk ๐Ÿ˜˜

Wishing you the very best day and year ahead. As you journey into this new phase of your life, your adventures will no doubt like slightly different. OK OK...very different! It is a privilege to watch you take on the role of motherhood so naturally, Salmaan is a lucky little munchkin โค

Love and appreciate you, always!

#happybirthday #sister #salmaansmommy
Everyone's favourite puppet & ventriloquist combo Everyone's favourite puppet & ventriloquist combo โค

I would definitely recommend going to see the @mrchestermissing Nice Racists show at the Artscape. It's only playing for the rest of this week still.

It's not a "laugh until your stomach hurts" type show. They discuss the issues of race in SA, a topic that really needs so much addressing still, in a way that brings humour into it just enough to lighten the heavy topic. You will be introspecting by the end of it.

Very grateful also that Conrad stepped in and made sure I had an opportunity to attend the show even though silly Computicket only sells even numbers of tickets for the show online (meaning you can't just buy a single ticket, smh).

Wishing you all the success for the show in future as it travels to other SA cities and then plans to go international ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

#chestermissingselfie
The Ironman 70.3 Dubai race report is finally here The Ironman 70.3 Dubai race report is finally here! Read all about it in the #linkinbio.

#racereport #ironman703dubai #swimbikerun #embarktri #atcmultisport #triathlon #roggiethetriathlete
ONE MORE SLEEP! Racked. Ready. Let's do this thi ONE MORE SLEEP! 

Racked. Ready. Let's do this thing...

I'm just going to go out and have fun out there. I hope the weather is kind to us. Other than that, will put balls to the wall from my side ๐ŸŠ๐Ÿฝโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿšด๐Ÿฝโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿฝโ€โ™€๏ธ

You can follow me on the Ironman Tracker app to get race splits in real time.

#im703dubai #roggiethetriathlete #swimbikerun #anythingispossible  #hijabiironman
It's so surreal that this day is finally here! I l It's so surreal that this day is finally here! I leave for Dubai today and then doing @im703middleeast Dubai on Saturday, 5 March 2022. It's a 1.9km swim, 90km cycle, and 21km run.

It was the end of December when I told my @embarktri coaches that I want to do this race. With just over 2 months to train, I knew it would be a push to get ready in time, but they did not hesitate or doubt for a moment that we could make it happen. Well here we are, and I feel so ready. The training was equal measures of tough and lots of fun. I'm so incredibly grateful for the team and friends I get to train with, and to my family and friends who are so supportive of my crazy ideas. I'm going to make you all proud, I promise.

#im703dubai #roggiethetriathlete #roggiedoesdubai #letsdothis #solomission
That finish line smile belongs to a chicky that sm That finish line smile belongs to a chicky that smashed her Olympic distance triathlon PB! 
1500m swim, 40km cycle, 10km run. ๐ŸŠ๐Ÿฝโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿšด๐Ÿฝโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿฝโ€โ™€๏ธ

๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ’ƒ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿฅณ

It's been so long since I've tri'd that I forgot how hard it is! Wow that swim @bluelagoontriathlon was humbling, the bike course was lekker (of course there will always be some wind to contend with!), and the run...well, we don't talk about that run ๐Ÿ™Š It should be illegal to have a hill that nasty on a course and make runners do it 4 times!! ๐Ÿ˜… 

The water point crew was incredible. Thanks to the guy that gave me a whole bottle of water to empty onto myself for cooling when he saw I was throwing cups of water on myself.

What a fun weekend it was! The @embarktri familia was out in full force, to make it more than just triathlon. It's about the bonds we make along the way. The tri'ing is just an excuse to get there ๐Ÿ˜„

So my Blue Lagoon demons have been slayed. And #roggiethetriathlete is into the swing of things for the season. Here's to bigger and better. 2 weeks to go before I toe the start line of a little bit of a biggie. So it's been back into training with full force this week for that last push! ๐Ÿคœ๐Ÿฝ

#swimbikerun #reflections #wearetriathlon #triathlon #chasingPBs #butnotalwaysaboutthePBs #incrementalimprovements
As the mornings get darker and gloomier, best we b As the mornings get darker and gloomier, best we bring the brightness ourselves...
#lifebehindbars #strelathe2nd #bikeislife #happyplace #roggiethetriathlete #6amclub
SWIM BIKE RUN baby! ๐Ÿ’ฅ First time I'm putting o SWIM BIKE RUN baby! ๐Ÿ’ฅ

First time I'm putting on a triathlon race belt in almost 3 years. For most of us it's been at least 2 years anyway. But races are back. BOOM!

I've got demons to slay at @bluelagoontriathlon. So far so good. I'm feeling race ready and keen to smoke the course tomorrow. Thanks to the awesome @embarktri coaches  and @atcmultisport team. You guys truly make it so simple for us. All we've gotta do is show up, do the training, and put in the effort. The change in my fitness in such a short time (only 2 months) has truly amazed me. I haven't done many triathlons of this distance (standard/Olympic distance) so I'm looking forward to see how it goes.

It's also my first race with #Strelathe2nd and my first tri with my awesome @sailfish_south_africa wetsuit. Looking to racing alongside some awesome people. That's what we love about this sport, it's the people that makes it great. Let's do this thing my peeps ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿฝ

#swimbikerun #bluelagoontri #triathlon #roggiethetriathlete #kitlayout #embarktri #atcmultisport
I'm leveling up my swim game this year, and @capes I'm leveling up my swim game this year, and @capescotty is helping me do it. If you want to seriously improve any area of your life, you need a coach to help you get there. And that's exactly what I'm doing to improve my open water swim.

We had our 1st session today & it has been absolutely incredible what he was able to pick up in my stroke, show me how to improve it, and give me the tools (drills) to help. And that's before I even received the underwater videos he took of me. I'm sure it will be cringeworthy to see myself swim once I get them ๐Ÿ˜…

I've known Scott and his wife Bianca for over a decade now, from the Twitter days when we were (just) runners. I followed them both for a while without knowing they're married to each other, & was pleasantly surprised when I found out. I followed both of their journeys to Ironman, and especially B's absolutely inspirational journey to triathlon, multiple Ironmans and a Norseman. It was a big part of inspiring me to get into triathlon. And then there was Scott's amazing swimming feats, and his great coaching skills & certifications.

It's @bluelagoontriathlon race week and I find it so apt that I started my new chapter with Scott this week. In 2019, it was this Ironcouple that dug me out of one of the darkest places in my Ironman journey. I was supposed to do the standard distance tri and long swim at Blue Lagoon, but instead I was so sick that I spent the entire weekend in my accommodation feeling like I'm dying. It was 3 weeks before Ironman and just the day before I didn't even have the energy to move from the bed to the bathroom without being out of breath. And it was not the 1st time my immune system was letting me down. I was literally worried sick that I wouldn't make it to the start line. On the Sunday morning I went down to support the swim. It was like a godsend that I ran into them & we had a long chat. I can still hear B's words: "What you've done is enough. Just rest". I hadnt even run more than 25km in my training until then, but I trusted their experience when they told me I'd be fine. I'm forever grateful ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿผ 

Trust the process... ๐ŸŠ๐Ÿฝโ€โ™€๏ธ

Now let's go smash Blue Lagoon. 
My medal is 3yrs overdue ๐Ÿ’ฅ
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