Dan and Sam surprise pundits with big wins at Cape Town Trail Marathon
Daniel Claassen and Samantha Reilly confounded the pre-race predictions and ran to impressive victories at the Cape Town Trail Marathon by Ryan Sandes (CTTM) this morning, while recently crowned Proteas, Siboniso Soldaka and Lijan Burger, triumphed in the shorter...
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...
Africans hold their own in weekend ultra trail outings
by Stephen Granger
African interest in ultra-trail running centred on the Southern Drakensberg Mountains in the NE Cape and on the Atlantic Ocean island of Madeira over the weekend, with Simon Tshabalala and Ryan Sandes achieving notable results.
Simon Tshabalala...
Living to run at this year’s Otter
By Stephen Granger
When Sinovuyo Ngcobo lines up at the start of this year’s Otter African Trail Run a day before his 26th birthday, alongside top South African trail athlete and former Otter champion, Ryan Sandes, he will be living his...
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”...
Morocco’s Elazzaoui ends the season on a “vertical” high
Leading Moroccan trail athlete, Elhousine Elazzaoui ended his season on a high with victory on Saturday 30 October in a vertical kilometre (VK) race and a second position in the final SkyRace of the year in Italy.
The Limone Extreme...
Ugandan and Kenyan athletes plunder medals at the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships...
Ugandan athletes reigned supreme in the mountain running ‘Up and Down’ race on the final day (Sunday 6 November) of the World Trail and Mountain Running Championships at the Thailand resort of Chiang Mai, taking top honours in both...
Elhousine leads an Africa 1-2-3 at the Golden Trail World Series Grand Final
Leading Moroccan trail athlete, Elhousine ‘Hassan’ Elazzaoui, raced to a superb victory in the Golden Trail Series Grand Final, in the northern Italian town of Noli over the weekend (22 October 2023) while Romanian newcomer to the sport, Madalina...
Toni McCann on song in the Canaries, Kenya’s Diana Chepkemoi has a strong run...
By Stephen Granger
South African trail athlete, Toni McCann, ran a superb race to finish second to local favourite, Sara Alonso Martinez from Spain, at the challenging Transgrancanaria 43km Marathon, run on the Spanish north Atlantic island of Gran Canaria...
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...