Masiphumelele’s Malusi triumphs at Bay to Bay
Thirty-three year old Masiphumelele athlete, Malusi Judase, is the pride of the Satori Running Club following his superb win in Sunday’s (22 January) Bay to Bay 30km back to back race between Camps Bay and Hout Bay.
One of the...
Lords and Ladies of the Rings prepare for epic OUTsurance Gun Run
by Stephen Granger
Four Olympic marathoners will join battle with an array of shorter-distance speedsters in the 2022 OUTsurance Gun Run in what is shaping up to be one of the premier races on the 2022 South African road running...
Pot of gold under the Otter African Trail rainbow
The Otter African Trail Run has long been regarded as Southern Africa’s most prestigious marathon-distance trail race, regularly attracting the world’s leading trail athletes.. But over the 13-year life of the event, the rewards for excelling at the Otter...
Tadu prays for a Boston miracle
One of the Ethiopia’s leading distance athletes in recent years, Tadu Teshome Nare, was just seven when the Noah of all storms unleashed its fury on her family home. There had been some heavy downpours in the Sidama region...
Tashwell and Nicky fly high on the mountain to win the inaugural OUTsurance Gun...
by Stephen Granger
Twenty-four-year-old BA student at UWC, Tashwell Damons, and Cape Town and Cambridge-trained economist, Nicky Wills (25), took the honours at the inaugural OUTsurance Gun Run 15km Trail Run from Van Riebeek Park, Oranjezicht, to Green Point Common...
Masters make their mark, but Jarryd and Kristen rule in Hout Bay
by Stephen Granger
Jarryd Dunn celebrated his 25th birthday with an impressive win at the twentieth Hout Bay Trail Challenge, run on the traditional 40 km route around the amphitheatre of mountains surrounding Hout Bay today (Saturday 23 July), while...
OUTsurance Gun Run ready to fire again
by Stephen Granger
The fuse has been lit for the 28th OUTsurance Gun Run and the first post-COVID edition of the race is scheduled to explode into life on Cape Town streets in mid-September.
One of Cape Town’s ‘Big Five’ road races,...
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)...
It’s Otter time as top trail athletes gather in the Tsitsikamma
Not for nothing is the Otter African Trail Run, powered by Easy Equities, known as the Grail of Trail and on Saturday (8 October) many of the country’s leading trail exponents will again be tackling the iconic 42km stretch...
Ultra-trail Cape Town Race Director McConnachie realises life ambition in California while Zimbabwe’s Hawgood...
by Stephen Granger
Ultra-trail Cape Town (UTCT) Race Director, Stuart McConnachie, swops his clip-board and whistle for trail-running shoes this weekend as he fulfils a life ambition to race one of the oldest and most prestigious trail races in the...