Kalmer’s Corner — Trials and Tribulations of the T-Shirt
16 Dec 2019 — I know Comrades is already long gone, but this month I want to write about something I spotted when I was in Durban to support my Murray & Roberts teammates and the other runners. Two days prior to the Comrades, I did my two-hour long run on the fa …… read more
Sanlam Cape Town Marathon cancelled; Virtual Race to go ahead as planned!
23 Jun 2020 — Following lengthy discussions, detailed review and careful consideration of all options and alternatives, the organisers and sponsors of the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon have confirmed the cancellation of the 2020 event. The Sanlam Cape Town Marathon was …… read more
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Hoff… Still Flying in his 40s
“If I want to be competitive, I need to be running in a group like that. I am the ‘Madala’ in the group, but I know I will still be giving the youngsters a run for their money. And it will be good for me to train at that pace again.” – Living legend Shadrack Hoff on his plans to enter the veteran category in the World Marathon Majors next…
Moab’s Desert Sands
“In South Africa we are not used to anything like the countryside we went through on the Moab. It was canyons, desert, single track, and more. The closest we have to it in this part of the world is maybe the Augrabies and Fish River Canyon races, but nothing remotely close to the scale that the Moab is.” – Trail star Bennie Roux describes his experience running the 383km Moab…
Lisa’s Healing Journey
“I literally felt as though I had been given a death sentence, not from the leukaemia, but because I felt there was no possibility I could survive that amount of chemo, which would also destroy my immune system. I felt so disempowered, and the fact that I would lose my hair really upset me. I felt as though I would lose my identity.” – Thankfully, the Lisa Fernandez story has…
Ultimate Ultra Trail
“The second night I also started having extremely vivid, sleep-deprived hallucinations… some were so real, I could actually hear them, before realising they weren’t actually there when I got a bit closer or had a second look.” – South African trailer Dale Biagio came back from the Ultra-Trail Mont Blanc in France with interesting memories of running through exhaustion!