Thursday 1st May 2025. Offical public holiday in South Africa – May day (thank you)This would be Yvonne Perry’s 20th Rhodes 21km. Quite some milestone for sure. A whole twenty one years of visiting Wellington to run the then Safari and now the Rhodes 21km. Tenacity describes this well don’t you agree?…
Saturday 8th March 2025 This race is hosted by TotalSports VOB Running Club and the route offers some of the most scenic routes in the city. It started at 06h15 from the Constantia Village Shopping Centre, Main Road, Constantia. We started off as seven girls running the VOB. But things change, as…
And so this Saturday morning would offer a lie in. Just by way of a change as we’re usually up before the crack of dawn doing our thang! Mandy had offered to collect me from mine at 06h00 and off we drove to Paula’s house where Paula took over the driving with…
Friday 21st March 2025Hosted by Van Der Merwe & Robertson Durbanville Athletics ClubAs per usual we try to organize a lift club up front which obviously enables us to travel together not only to save on fuel and parking but for safety reasons too. Heidi would drive to mine, we’d then drive…
Sunday 16th MarchI could have kicked my own backside when I realized that the entries for this race had closed. What was I thinking? I really enjoy this race previously and was pretty bleh when I missed the cut off date. So I thought I’d give Leon Thelander a ring and see…
The Tygerberg AVBOB 15km had been arranged to start from the Pick ‘n Pay centre in Blouberg Road as in previous years. This kinda race suits me down to the ground as it’s virtually on my doorstep. It’s probably 5km’s from our house. Heidi picked me up at 05h20 as we planned…
Sunday 1st December – count down to Christmas! Robben Island Museum 10km Memorial Run Probably one of the most talked about 10kms known to mankind? Well it was in our circle anyway. The public had been advised that the Robben Island Museum 10km Memorial Run would be open for entries on 1st…
Winelands 5/10/21.1/42.2km Helderberg’s showpiece offering a run on a beautiful undulating route through the winelands of Stellenbosch and Somerset West. Celebrating the 45th Winelands Marathon this year! Friday 29th November Paula and Anelle left Sunningdale in the afternoon after collecting the club gazebo and cooler box. Their first port of call was…
Southern Striders hosts the annual Tokai Manor House Run (16 km and 8km Fun Run) and this year the race was held on Sunday, 24 November 2024. From its start in 1993 until 2014, the race was held at the Chrysalis Academy and ran up the mountain through the SANParks Tokai Forest…
Chapman’s Peak Half Marathon is a stunning run along Chapman’s Peak Drive to Noordhoek and back to Hout Bay. Chapman’s Peak Drive was closed to traffic. The use of Chapman’s Peak Drive however is at your own risk. Please note the possibility of rock falls and the danger associated in addition to…