How trail running’s focus on health is enabling a zero-tolerance doping culture.
Trail running, of all the athletics disciplines, would appear the least likely to attract drug cheats. One definition of the sport is "running in the heart of nature". The sport's promotion of a healthy lifestyle would appear to make...
South African trail runners chasing Golden Tickets
Table Mountain, one of the continent’s most iconic landmarks, holds the fate of South Africa’s top trail athletes hoping to win a Golden Ticket and a trip of a lifetime to the Azores. Top runners will be vying for...
“Super Pole” Przedwojewski and Switzerland’s Mathys take overall honours in the Golden Trail Championship,...
Sunday 1st November is All Saints Day in the USA and whether that influenced the outcome of the final day of the Golden Trail Championship - The Azores Trail Run – on the Island of Faial, we'll never know. However,...
African trail athletes making strides in the French Alps
by Stephen Granger
British athlete Jonathan Albon and Sara Alonso took line honours at the Mont Blanc 'The Roller Coaster' Marathon over the weekend in the second of the 2022 Golden Trail World Series but not before African athletes...
Potential African moves on ‘Fast and Furious”
By Stephen Granger
Several of Africa’s leading trail athletes take on the best in the world on Saturday (7 August) at one of the biggest and oldest races on the calendar – the Sierre Zinal (SZ) 31km – raced over...
Coloured “bib” stages during Azores trail championship a potential game-changer: organiser
A novel ‘races-within-a-race’ format for the four-day Golden Trail Championship (GTC) which commences with a prologue on the island of Faial in The Azores on Wednesday (October 28) is likely to have far-reaching consequences, according to Golden Trail founder Greg...
McCann world-class run seals trail segment
Top women's ultra trail runner Toni McCann vaulted back to the top of the leader board of July's #Gone2Gone trail segment in Cape Town on Friday (July 31), delivering a world-class performance in trail and road running. McCann made...
Golden Trail Championship Stage 3 – no technical ascent due to weather conditions; faster...
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Golden Trail Championship Stage 3 - no technical ascent due to weather conditions; faster track favours leaders
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Mount Pico beckoned briefly but the technical ascent was not to...
Table Mountain “Golden Trail” route still “padlocked”
Leading trail and mountain athlete, Meg Mackenzie, scorched a 30 km route on Saturday (July 4) in a run planned to open the ‘Strava Segment’ for a much anticipated Golden Ticket challenge on Cape Town's Table Mountain - before...
Golden trails lead to Madeira for season climax
It’s showtime for trail running as the world’s top marathon-distance trail athletes fly into Funchal, the capital of the Portuguese Island of Madeira, to take part in this week’s Golden Trail Series Grand Final at the Madeira Ocean&Trails® Stage...