History of the Race The first-ever Hohenort was held on 15 November 1975 and is the flagship event of the Pinelands Athletic Club. The name Hohenort is derived from the area in which it is held, Hohenort is the name of a sub-section of the Constantia Valley. Due to its popularity and growth the start and…
A circular, flat route around Rietvlei, with spectacular views of Table Mountain. AVBOB has been sponsoring the race for 38 years. Come Saturday morning I had arranged to collect Heidi on my way through to the Tygerberg AVBOB 15km which had – as many years before – been arranged to start at…
Whilst up in Umhlanga on our usual two week breakaway I saw an advert for the Robben Island Museum Memorial Run and without hesitation entered there and then. I posted the advert on our girls WhatsApp group and sure enough before long we had (mostly) entered and looking forward to our overseas…
To commemorate the flight from England to Cape Town by two South African pilots in 1920. Wednesday as a rule of thumb is when a group of us gals run with Handsoncoach Alan Green – our local coach, covering between 6km to 10km’s, depending on what time one starts. This Wednesday would…
Friday 6th October 2023 Sonja and Paula drove up to our house late afternoon and parked Paula’s car in our garage as I had offered to drive us up to Mykonos. We left just after 15h00 and arrived in Langebaan just over an hour later. Sonja had secured a second floor two…
The race dates back to 1977 – when the Bredasdorp Athletics Club was established. At the time, an icon named Eps Joubert was chair of the club. He sparked the idea to start a truly Overberg marathon; a unique marathon given our special location close to Africa’s southernmost tip. The marathon takes…
The phrase is “up and at ’em” or more accurately “up and at them” and comes from the military with the full command being “Up, Guards, and at ’em!”. This is exactly what applied to Carl at 04h00 on Sunday morning as his task was to put the km markers in Duynefontein…
The Two Oceans Ultra (56km) Saturday 15th April 2023 and half marathon (21km) Sunday 16th April 2023 On Thursday morning I had to pop through to the city for a visit with my dentist. Straight afterwards I decided to stop over at the CTICC to collect my race number. Then to my dismay I…
On entering the Melkbosskerm we were met by our Club Captain Tamster plus a board of black and white photo’s which we had been asked to send in via Whatsapp for the purpose of the evening. A tray of intricately iced cup cakes were at the ready adorned with cardboard cactus and other paraphernalia all baked by our very own Mandy Marth.
After posting on Face Book about getting a lift to the Tygerberg 30km, George Lemon was kind enough to respond and advised that he would be picking me up at 05h00 on Sunday morning. Being an early riser this would prove no problem to me bearing in mind my up time would…
