Are You The Next Under Armour Elite Runner?
27 Oct 2020 — Under Armour is looking for an elite group of long distance runners to join their families of athletes. They know that the rules of engagement have changed, and get that it takes a lot more than sponsorship to build a champion. Submit your application …… read more
Stabbing Motivation
14 Oct 2020 — Saturday 12 May is a day that well-known Cape Town elite runner Sibusiso Madikizela will never forget. That was the day that his running career was nearly ended by a knife-wielding attacker… but he has come back stronger and more fired up to run than e …… read more
To Touch a Signpost
15 Oct 2020 — What’s a runner to do when you’ve been training for months for two ultra-marathons, and then suddenly the world goes into lockdown and all events gets cancelled? Well, SA-based British athlete and 2018 Comrades Marathon gold medallist Carla Molinaro we …… 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!
