Chigome clinches K-Way Maxi
By Stephen Granger
Joshua Chigome came from behind to clinch an impressive victory in the 75km K-Way MaXi Race Cape Winelands presented by Banhoek Chilli Oil, run between Franschhoek and Stellenbosch in cold conditions yesterday (Saturday, October 2), outrunning experienced...
Surprises on the Golden Trail
By Stephen Granger
Spanish mountain runner, Jan Margarit, handed down one of the upsets of the European trail-running season, winning the final Golden Trail World Series league race, the Skyrhune 21km, in the French Basque country on Saturday, while Moroccan...
Records fall at “toughest” 4 Peaks Mountain Challenge
By Kelly Burke
Multiple records fell at the K-Way 4 Peaks Mountain Challenge on Saturday (September 25) in a memorable day for event organisers.
Dubbed as the toughest 24km trail race in South Africa with a vertical accent of over...
African runners campaign for 2021 Golden Trail
By Stephen Granger
Africa’s leading marathon-distance trail athlete, Elhousine ‘Hassan’ Elazzaoui, ends his campaign to qualify for the Golden Trail World Series (GTWS) grand-final at the sixth and final GTWS race in the French Basque centre of Ascain over the...
An adventurer turns to trail running
By Stephen Granger
Well-known South African adventurer and mountaineer, Sibusiso Vilane, has a new challenge in his sights – to race the Otter African Trail Run in the Southern Cape on Saturday 9 October in conjunction with many of the...
SkyRunning SA and AfricanX events mark trail bounce-back
by Stephen Granger
Robbie Rorich and Karien Bezuidenhout were the winners of the Mont Rochelle SkyRace in the Franschhoek mountains on Saturday 18 September – the first in the inaugural SkyRunning SA series - while Collin Kanyimo and Kerry-Anne Marshall...
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...
Learning at altitude – African trail runners blown away by Mont Blanc
by Stephen Granger
The dust has settled on the first post-COVID Ultra-trail Mont Blanc (UTMB), and the trail and ultra-distance world is reflecting on the most intense competition in the 18-year history of the world’s largest trail event, a week...
Western Europe’s highest mountain woos Africa’s trail runners (part 2)
By Stephen Granger
While the full circumnavigation around Mont Blanc in the form of the Ultra-trail Mont Blanc 100 miler is undoubtedly the showpiece of this week’s running festival at the French Alpine town of Chamonix, the shorter-distance faces have...
Western Europe’s highest mountain woos African trail runners (part 1)
By Stephen Granger
The highest mountain in Western Europe and the second highest in Europe, Mont Blanc, has long offered significant challenges to mountaineers and skiers. It also looks down on the world’s biggest trail event, which got underway this...