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...
Rorich and Marshall fly high in the sky at Mont Rochelle
by Stephen Granger
Robbie Rorich and Kerry-Anne Marshall raced to impressive victories at the Mont Rochelle Skyrace at Franchhoek over the weekend with a top-quality field enjoying a great day of mountain running in cold and windy conditions.
One of the...
Dijana and Morozova are the 2022 Comrades Marathon champions!
by Stephen Granger
Thirty-four-year-old athlete from Rustenburg in South Africa’s North West Province, Tete Morena Dijana, turned his life around with a sensational win in the 2022 Comrades ‘Down’ Run between Pietermaritzburg and Durban over the weekend (Sunday 28 August)...
Kilian Jornet races to record-breaking win in the French Alps
by Stephen Granger
Fourteen years after winning Ultra-trail Mont Blanc for the first time, Kilian Jornet recorded his fourth win, enhancing his reputation as the ‘greatest of all time’ with a record-breaking victory in the 171km circumnavigation of Mont Blanc...