Dodo pair poised to take flight at the Otter
Dodo Trail heroes Mvuyisi Gcogco and Emily Djock will be looking to take their form in July’s challenging trail race in Mauritius into Saturday’s Otter TERREX Trail, South Africa’s premier marathon-distance trail race.
This year’s race through the enchanting Tsitsikamma...
Trail racing’s big weekend sees major upsets
Two under-the-radar runners came up trumps in big ultra-trail races internationally and in South Africa at the weekend, with heart-warming stories to tell to inspire many with aspirations in the sport.
Vincent Bouillard and John April are hardly household names...
This weekend – top trail racing returns at home and abroad
The Olympic Games relegates non-Olympic sport to playing second fiddle for the duration of the games but trail running comes into its own this weekend at the climax of the Ultra-trail Mont Blanc (UTMB) festival of trail running.
UTMB, from...
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...
Five out of five for Kane
Kane Reilly lived up to his reputation as one of the country’s foremost trail athletes, with an emphatic victory at the 21st Old Fisherman’s Trail Challenge (OFTC) in Cape Town over the weekend (Sunday 8 June), while Lijan Burger...
Pickard clinches the ‘MUT Miler’ in a weekend of top trail racing in George
Douglas Pickard underlined his class as an ultra-distance trail athlete with an emphatic victory in the 166km ‘MUT Miler by UTMB’ run around and over the Outeniqua Mountains in the Southern Cape city of George over the weekend (Friday...
Wano on top of the world in the Jonkershoek Mountains
Namibian-born athlete, Wano Katjiri, enjoyed one of his best days out on the trails, earning a hard-fought victory over Patrick Cameron-Smith in the annual Jonkershoek Mountain Challenge over 38km, the first leg in the four-race Mountain Challenge series by...
Admire Muzopambwa’s UTD win
Zimbabwe-born and Johannesburg-based Admire Muzopambwa raced to the biggest win of his life when he came out on top of the Ultra-trail Drakensberg 100 miler (UTD 160) over the weekend, while Nicolette Griffioen won her second major 100 mile...
Patrick Kipngeno aiming to make it two out of two in China
The Golden Trail World Series stays in Asia following the season’s opening in Japan last weekend, moving to highlands of the western sector of Sichuan for Saturday's race (27 April).
Altitude and plenty of it is the name of the...
Trail Taxi – giving a life ride to township youth
Three ‘Trail Heroes’ are changing the lives of many young people in the Western Cape, helping them to exchange the drudgery and dangers of township life with opportunities to run scenic mountain trails in some of the province’s most...