Dave’s 50 in 50 Dream
10 Dec 2019 — For most ultra-runners, tackling the Two Oceans Marathon once a year is more than enough, but this year Dave Chamberlain tackled the ultra route 50 times in 50 days in the build-up to the 2019 race. Here is the story behind this incredible feat. By PJ …… read more
Feel the Difference with the ASICS Virtual Run Challenge
11 Sep 2020 — Run your way out of Lockdown for a chance to win one of 300 pairs of ASICS running shoes and a trip to the 2021 Paris or Tokyo Marathon, by entering the ASICS x Virtual Run! Amidst the isolation of lockdown, the world has fallen in love with running – …… read more
SPAR Spreads A Little Sunshine
22 Jul 2020 — SPAR Launches South Africa’s Most Beautiful Virtual Challenge! SPAR is aiming to put some sunshine back in your life during these challenging times with the SPAR Women’s Virtual Challenge. 2020 has been a strange year, as the world struggles to contain …… 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!
