Bianca Tarboton steals the show as Robbie Simpson takes three in a row at...
Bianca Tarboton became the first athlete in the history of the Otter African Trail Run to win the title on four occasions, her record-breaking victory stealing the show in this morning’s (Saturday 4 October) Otter TERREX Trail, presented by...
Cody Lind steals the show as runners hit the high spots in the Drakensberg
Eastern Cape trail maestro, Thato Kabeli, continued his domination over Drakensberg ultra-trails at the 9th edition of the RMB Ultra-trail Drakensberg over the weekend but it was a visiting American who stole the show with one of the best...
Marathon de Sables for Nontuthuko Mgabhi
by Stephen Granger
When Nontuthuko Mgabhi lines up in October at one of the world’s most gruelling footraces – the Marathon des Sables ( the Marathon of the Sands) - a multi-day stage race across 250km of scorching sands in the Sahara...
Mud and blood on the Dodo trail in career-best win for Emily Djock
Cape Town based athlete, Emily Djock, raced to a career-defining closely-fought victory in the Dodo Trail ‘Xtreme’ Race in Mauritius over the weekend (Saturday 13 July), while Eastern Cape’s Mvuyisi Gcogco came through strongly to grab a podium position...
Trail Running: Tragedy in China elicits pause, even in Africa
The tragic outcome of the recent Yellow Stone Forest 100km in China has left trail runners and organisers around the world with much to ponder in respect of the potential dangers of a sport, where the “edge and adventure”...
Otter’s champions set to take on New Zealand’s best at Tarawera
Current Otter TERREX Trail Champions, Robbie Simpson and Bianca Tarboton, take on a strong international line-up at Tarawera Ultra-trail by UTMB, New Zealand’s most important trail event, this weekend.
South Africa’s premier trail marathon, ‘the Otter’, which takes place in...
Trail runners experience adventure in awe-inspiring mountains in fourth Pass2Pass Ultra-Trail
More than 700 trail runners enjoyed a day out in perfect running conditions along some of the Western Cape’s lesser-known trails between Paarl and Wellington in the fourth Pass2Pass Ultra-trail over the weekend.
The race’s tag-line ‘where adventure awaits and...
Cowboys head internationals at UTCT
by Stephen Granger
Cape Town, South Africa is a long way from cowboy territory.
Jim Walmsley is the best-known of a group of runners raised in Arizona, USA, who once called themselves the "Coconino Cowboys" after the second-largest county in the...
Trail running’s Golden Ticket
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a classic children's book by Roald Dahl, loved by children around the world, in large part due to the excitement created by a contest to win a “golden ticket” which would entitle the...
South Africa’s leading distance athletes nominated for Modern Athlete of the Year Awards
Landie Greyling, Sipho Mbanjwa, Toni McCann, Siboniso Soldaka, Daniel Claassen and Bianca Tarboton are just some of the nominees for the trail running component in the Modern Athlete of the Year Award for 2023, announced today (Friday 9 February)...