The ‘Matty Fish’ to swim again at the Otter African Trail Run
While the build-up to the 14th edition of the African Otter Trail Run, powered by Easy Equities (Thursday and Saturday 6 and 8 October), will largely focus on South Africa’s leading trail athletes and who will line up in...
Stellenbosch University Steeplechaser shocks Olympians at OUTsurance Gun Run
Ashley Smith and Fortunate Chidzivo were crowned king and queen of the OUTsurance Gun Run Half Marathon at Green Point this morning (Sunday 18 September) as Cape Town-based athletes regained the thrones from their inland rivals in the 28th...
Sakwe, Djock claim gold at THIRSTI AFRICANX TRAILRUN 1-Day XPERIENCE
by SPNA / Jacky Maclean
Siyabonga Sakwe and Emily Djock took top honours in the 42km THIRSTI AFRICANX TRAILRUN 1-Day XPERIENCE that took place at Paul Cluver Wine Estate in Grabouw on Saturday 17 September 2022.
Taking the format of an...
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...
‘Big Guns’ in Southern African road running set to turn out in Cape Town...
by Stephen Granger
The count-down has begun for the 2022 OUTsurance Gun Run. Only hours remain before the Gun Run 15km Trail Run gets underway on Table Mountain (Saturday 17 September) as a prelude to the ‘big shot’ racing over...
Pet Walk an important part of this weekend’s OUTsurance Gun Run
by Stephen Granger
As thousands of runners and walkers put the finishing touches to their training programmes and running gear in preparation for this weekend’s OUTsurance Gun Run festival of running, thirteen special participants will be making sure their collars...
Slaying the Dragon in the Welsh Mountains
by Stephen Granger
African athletes have enjoyed notable success in the European trail season over the past months, with Kenyans Mark Kangogo, Patrick Kipngeno and Esther Chesang, and South Africa’s Toni McCann winning significant races and Eritean Petro Mamu, Moroccan...
Ryan Sandes ‘Dream Race’ attracts top-quality field to Table Mountain
by Stephen Granger
Martin Luther King’s ‘I had a dream’ speech in Washington DC in 1963 was a catalyst for a mass march for freedom and the establishment of the American civil rights movement. Sixty years later South Africa’s best...
Sanlam Cape Town Marathon is burning bright five weeks before lift-off
by Stephen Granger
Big name athletes bound for Cape Town, an inaugural world-class ‘formula one’ wheelchair race, a Comrades Marathon champion signed to run the Cape Town Trail Marathon and the power of the event to change lives provided some...
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...