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COFFEE AND KINDNESS

TRAINING for a 75km race isn’t for the fainthearted. You need to be disciplined and determined and ensure your days are structured so you don’t drop any balls – especially when you have as much going on as this guy.

Gideon Swart is a husband, father, sports missionary, barista, coffee shop owner, human rights activist. . . the list is so long it’s enough to make you tired just by looking at it. Yet the 45-year-old thrives on it. Anything he can do to make the world a better place is what drives him and pushes him to the limit.

When YOU meets Gideon he’s training for the maxi race in the Cape

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