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...
Elhousine and Philemon set to take on the world in Japan at Golden Trail...
The Golden Trail World Series (GTWS), now in its sixth edition, commences its 2024 season in Kobe, Japan, tomorrow (Saturday 20 April).
The series, which pits elite-level trail runners from around the world on rugged mountain courses that range from...
It’s time for Africa – the 2023 African Trail Runners of the Year are...
Africa and running are inextricably linked.
When our fore-parents moved from Africa into other parts of the planet almost 100 000 years ago, running was part and parcel of life, whether in pursuit of their next meal, running from danger or...
Sports shoe powerhouse joins Africa’s leading trail event
With Maryann Shaw
RMB Ultra-trail Cape Town, South Africa’s premier festival of trail running, is proud to announce adidas TERREX as their official technical sponsor. RMB UTCT hosts its tenth edition in 2024 and looks forward to taking its place...
Karkloof announced as 2024 Trail Champs venue
Athletics South Africa is pleased to announce a national championship for trail and mountain running in September this year.
The 2024 ASA Trail and Mountain Running Championship will be hosted by the Karkloof Trail Run, which takes place at 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)...
Project Noordhoeked’s William Chirwa exciting new trail running talent
Fifteen minutes into our Long Beach walk from the Noordhoek Car Park, our guide suddenly recalls he had forgotten to collect and hand out fabric bags for us to collect plastics littering the beach.
“No problem,” says our guide. “You...
Otter African Trail Run earns prestigious SANParks award
The Otter African Trail Run has walked off with a prestigious ‘Kudu Award’ at the annual South African National Parks awards ceremony in Johannesburg this week, with the Tsitsikamma Section of the Garden Route National Park, through which the...
Hot performances at Ultra Trail Cape Town as world-class trail running lights up Table...
By Stephen Granger
The thermometer soared over 30 degrees as the racing heated up on the final day of the 9th RMB Ultra-trail Cape Town yesterday (Sunday 26 November), delivering one of the performances of the competition during the ‘Table...
Simpson and McCann shine brightly in the Ultra-trail Cape Town 55km
Robbie Simpson and Toni McCann took the honours on Day One of the RMB Ultra-trail Cape Town this morning (Friday 24 November), racing clear of their rivals in the 55km ‘Peninsula Traverse’ which took place on Cape Town’s trails,...