Soweto Marathon is Back!
16 May 2022 — Sold out year on year, The People’s Race, Soweto Marathon will officially open entries for the 2022 edition come Friday 27 May. Taking place on Sunday 6 November 2022, the race route will continue to honour Soweto’s rich history as it takes runners thr …… read more
Road to Comrades with Dylan Rogers
5 Jul 2022 — Dylan Rogers is a sports journalist with Johannesburg radio station HOT 102.7FM and part of the Big Joburg Drive Show, which you can catch 3pm to 6pm Monday to Friday on either 102.7FM or streaming on hot1027.co.za. He’ll be running his first Comrades …… read more
Made for Her, the PUMA RUN XX
28 Jun 2022 — PUMA releases its first women’s specific running shoe! For too long, running shoes have been made for men and then redesigned to fit a woman’s foot shape. This season, PUMA is rewriting that narrative with the Run XX NITRO, a running shoe made for her. …… read more
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Have Your Say: High Race Fees
Columnist Manfred Seidler wrote last month that our races are not over-priced, but his opinion was not shared by all in the running community, as can be seen from the comments we received in response.
Running for Reagan
This year’s winner of the Sanet Wentzel Spirit Award at the THIRSTI AFRICANX TRAILRUN was Jéan Payne, who is using running to cope with a heart-breaking loss. This is her story.
One for the Record Books!
The big story to come out of this year’s Totalsports Two Oceans Ultra was Gerda Steyn finally breaking Frith van der Merwe’s 33-year-old course record, but as she told us, it almost didn’t happen!
Sprinting into the Record Books
South Africa has a new sprinting sensation, Viwe Jingqi, and she is still just 17, but she has already claimed three national records, some of which had stood for more than three decades!