Monday, February 24, 2025

Running

How far can a person run in 24 hours? This ultra marathon star will...

Yiannis Kouros is a living legend.  The Greek athlete’s extraordinary feats of ultra-distance running defy belief.  Many of his records, set in the 80s and 90s, still stand.  But one, of which Kouros boasted would stand for centuries, is...

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...

Trail action this weekend

South African trail running again takes centre stage this weekend in the Western and Eastern Cape, providing athletes with an opportunity for real competitive action – rare in a COVID-inhibited 2020 where ‘virtual’ is the biggest name in town. One...

Top US trail athletes eye Africa

Two American athletes who enjoyed outstanding success at the recent Golden Trail Championship on the Island of Faial in The Azores may soon be racing on the African continent. Jim Walmsley and Rachel Drake arrived in The Azores with formidable...

Spain’s Pere Aurell takes honours at South Africa’s oldest trail race; Holland’s Ragna Debats...

Thirty-six-year-old Spanish athlete Pere Aurell took line honours at the K-Way SkyRun 100km, run in perfect conditions in the Witteberg Mountains of the North-East Cape over the weekend but not before nail-biting drama over the final stages as last...

Breaking (Update) – K-Way SkyRun 100km half-way results

36-year-old Spanish athlete, Pere Aurell, took charge of the 2020 Skyrun 100km at the halfway point with no other athlete in the field looking a threat to his title aspirations.  Two hundred and fifty runners started the 24th edition of...

K-Way SkyRun 100km underway

Lucky Miya - twice winner of Skyrun. Photo: Stephen Granger One of South Africa’s oldest and wildest trail challenges got underway today (November 14) as two hundred and fifty participants started out on the 24th edition of the SkyRun 100km,...

A Winelands marathon goes virtual

The Winelands Marathon has been one of South Africa’s most popular road marathons since its launch in the 1970s but, as is the case for many road events in 2020, has been forced to bow to COVID pressure and...

Africans shine at the Golden Trail Championships

The origins of trail running - a sport dominated by European and American runners - is contended territory. Did the sport start with a challenge between three runners over a mountain in the San Francisco area, or with a...

A Golden Championship… The Azores 2020 Trail Run is a wrap.

Had last week’s Golden Trail Championship (GTC) been a four-day cricket test, the match would have been abandoned without a ball being bowled.  Trail athletes, however, embrace wild and elemental and the four-day stage race on the Azores Island...