The first and only time I met Grant Lottering, I thought he might be a sheep thief. Grant is many things — ultra-endurance cyclist, motivational speaker, a cheater of death and now author, but a stealer of sheep? Nah.

It was a meeting of some serendipity and coincidence. Myself and David Higgs, the cyclist, chef and Instagram superstar, were driving home from completing the Double Century, the 209km trundle starting and finishing in Swellendam. We had stopped off at a farm in the Karoo, somewhere on the N9 in the region of Willowmore, as I recall...

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