Sunday, November 24, 2024

Running

It’s a Reilly double-act as Kane and Sam reign supreme in the Hout Bay...

Kane and Samantha Reilly pulled off a remarkable brother-sister act at the 21st Hout Bay Trail Challenge this morning (Saturday 22 July), racing to emphatic victories over the challenging 40km circumnavigation of the Hout Bay mountains. Brother Kane raced to his...

Hout Bay Trail Challenge gets the ‘key to the door’ as leading athletes face...

Trail-running eyes are focused on one of the oldest and most iconic trail races in South Africa this weekend as the Hout Bay Trail Challenge (HBTC) comes of age.   This will be the 21st running of forty kilometres of challenging...

Elhousine strikes gold in Italy

Thirty-one-year-old Moroccan trail athlete, Elhousine Elazzaoui (Pini Mountain Racing), raced to his first Golden Trail World Series win with an emphatic victory in the lung-busting DoloMyths 22km Trail Race in Italy over the weekend (Saturday 15 July). Elazzaoui chose one...

Elazzaoui chasing Golden Trail World Series podium position at DoloMyths in Italy

The DoloMyths Run will celebrate its 25th anniversary tomorrow (Saturday 25 July) as the Golden Trail World Series (GTWS) reaches the half-way mark following the season opener at Zegama in Spain in May and the Mont Blanc Marathon three weeks ago. The already...

Mark Wagenheim gunning for Number 29 in this spring’s Gun Run Half Marathon

This September heralds the 29th running of the OUTsurance Gun Run and Mark Wagenheim will again be at the start, having run each edition of the Cape’s popular half marathons since the inaugural run in 1993. Something about the Gun...

World Mountain and Trail Running Championship delivers top performances on extreme trails in Austrian...

The curtain came down on the second World Mountain and Trail Running Championship in Innsbruck, Austria, over the weekend, an event which took the sport to an unprecedented level of competitiveness. German athlete, Ida-Sophie Hegemann is dwarfed by some of...

Strong African teams challenge for medals at World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in...

Kenyan, Uganda and South Africa will spearhead Africa’s challenge next week among the world’s best trail athletes at the second World Mountain and Trail Running Championships, which takes place in the Tyrolian Mountain centre of Innsbruck in Austria. An athlete...

Sandes wins inaugural race in the MUT mud at George

Forty-year-old trail legend, Ryan Sandes, showed there’s still competitive life in his legs when he raced to an emphatic victory in the Mountain Ultra Trail 100 miler (MUT Miler by UTMB) which took place on mountain trails around the...

Kenyans race to victory in top-class Cape Town road race

Twenty-six year old Kenyan, Victor Kipruto, and his compatriot, Veronica Loleo, one year his junior, ran like the wind to win this weekend’s Absa RUN YOUR CITY CAPE TOWN 10km (Sunday 14 May) in life-time bests for the distance. A...

Its a Kyle double as Bucklow and Nortje top the table at Muizenberg

Kyle Bucklow flourished as several of his potential rivals defaulted, leaving the Fish Hoek road and trail athlete to romp to victory in the Muizenberg Trail 20km this morning (Saturday 13 May) while Lisa Geffen (nee Pringle) upgraded her...
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