Killarney circuit fuels Olympic dreams of African runners
It was mission accomplished for South African Olympian, Elroy Galant, who won the Retail Capital Langa Marathon Challenge at a canter in 2 hrs 11 min 22 sec on the Killarney race circuit in Cape Town on Sunday (May...
Reilly nails 25km Special Edition
Kane Reilly held off a fierce challenge from Robbie Rorich to win an exciting Special Edition 25km Trail Race, run in perfect conditions on Devil’s Peak and Table Mountain on Saturday morning (May 22), while Bianca Tarboton was in...
Breaking Barriers – the Nedbank Ultra on Sunday
The Nedbank Runified Breaking Barriers Ultra-marathon, to be run over 50km in Gqeberha on Sunday, has attracted an impressive line-up of runners from the sub-continent and gets full marks for ambition.
The race is billed as an attempt on the...
Covid Legacy: The Special Edition Trail.
The winter trail season in South Africa continues in earnest this weekend, with an impressive line-up of athletes competing in the Special Edition Trail over a two-lap course on Table Mountain.
The Special Edition Trail has its origins in the...
The running academy driving South Africa’s distance running revolution
As a young girl, Elana van Zyl delighted at running along the tracks and roads on her parents’ farm near Albertina. At first, running was just fun. Later, she discovered that it was something she could do better than...
Organisers want to keep Krom “beast” friendly
The inaugural Kromrivier Beast 45km trail adventure in the Cederberg could hardly have taken place in wilder weather, ensuring the event not only lived up to its name but also won huge praise on social media for what will...
Wild conditions give teeth to Kromrivier Beast
Nelius Swart took advantage of wild conditions at the Kromrivier "Beast", at the inaugural, 45-km trail running event, held in the heart of South Africa's Cederberg Wilderness on Saturday (May 15). Swart, 39, came home in 5 hours,...
A beast on the Krom
According to local Cederberg lore, Daniel Theron, the first settler owner of Kromrivier Farm, saddled his horse at the oak tree near the water spring and rode as hard and far as he could, to the foot of the...
Langa Marathon Challenge offers an Olympic qualifying “time for Africa”
Elroy Galant tracks eventual winner Kenyan Edwin Koech in the 2019 Cape Town Marathon. Galant races at Killarney at the end of the month. Photo: Stephen Granger
Cape Town is taking its place in the relatively long line of...
A natural high… trail running offers a way out, for this runner.
At thirty-two, Jo Keppler has seen more of life than most will witness in a lifetime, having experienced its heady highs and crushing lows in equal measure. In an extraordinary tale of “second chance”, Keppler’s love for ultra-distance running...