It may be cold outside, but that did not slow down West Coast’s speedsters during the month of July; neither did it prevent us from going the distance at the Cape Town Festival of Running. Read on below for the awards and special mentions for July 2023. Runner of the month Michelle…
West Coast athletes outdid themselves at the 2023 Comrades Down Run. Our 44 runners achieved five new club records at this year’s event, and 15 club standards were attained. We had 13 novices complete their first Big C, and five members received their back-to-back medals. The awards and special mentions for June…
G is for Gold, Green and Generosity! Sanlam Cape Town Marathon (SCTM) is Africa’s only Gold Label Status Marathon, and it truly offers participants a golden experience. It is no easy feat to achieve Gold Label Status. The criteria include (but are not limited to) sufficient depth and geographic representation of the elite field,…
And now for something completely different Ever wondered what would happen if we neutralised the effect of gender at a race, and pitched the efforts of the top males and females against each other on equal grounds? Well, wonder no more. The Battle of the Sexes Medihelp 10km Tekkie Challenge does exactly…
Dialing the pace of life down, and the pace of the run up We are at that point in the year when time is told in relation to the start of the December vacation. The tell-tale signs are everywhere and Whatsapp groups are flooded with memes of cute puppies reminding you that…
Same race, new strategy Conditions were good for the running of the John Korasie 30km road race on 19 August 2018. It was cloudy (but not raining), cool (but not unbearable) and best of all the wind was not blistering. Many runners, including yours truly, use John Korasie 30km as a training…
What makes a race great? It may sound like a simple question, but when you sit down to write a run race review and reflect deeply on this question (as one does when you are an amateur-athlete-wanna-be-sports-writer), it soon becomes apparent that the answer may resemble a cringe worthy Facebook relationship status.…
