• About Linda Doke


    I’ve been running for about 24 years, always with a preference for long distance and ultras. Having been a roadie for the first decade, I have my fair share of Comrades and Two Oceans ultras under my belt, but I came to my senses when I moved to Cape Town 15 years ago and found trail. I’ve never looked back….

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Mapungubwe Transfrontier Wildrun 2017
Posted On 21st May 2017

I’m torn. And I mean, really torn.   My head wants to write about the wonderful experience I had last week, telling the world how fantastic it was to run in the African bush with wild game and to see, […]

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A black tale of the Tor des Géants 2016
28th September 2016

NOTE: This is not a race report on the Tor des Géants 2016. It is instead a colourful, or rather dark, description of my short experience of that fantastic race.    (Warning: this post is …


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The North Face Zagori 80km 2016
1st August 2016

  Harsh, rugged dolomite peaks and mountainous landscapes ripped, cut and carved over millennia of geological shifts, this is Zagori – a 1 000km2 region in northwestern Greece near the Albanian border, far off the …


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Richtersveld Transfrontier Wildrun 2016
26th June 2016

There are races. Many races. Short, long, single or multi-day, self-sufficient…  they’re popping up everywhere and there’re loads to choose from. Every one of them is challenging – some more than others – and they’re …


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Much ado about the Addo Elephant Trail Run 100 Miler
8th March 2016

  Which sounds further: 160km or 100 miles?   I’ve now run six of them and I’m still not sure. But I’m certainly grateful that in South Africa the checkpoints are kilometres apart rather than miles …


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The Beast 2015
28th May 2015

 “What is man without the beasts?  For if all the beasts were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.”   These wise words were uttered way back in the mid 1800s …


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My musings on our Drakensberg Grand Traverse
19th April 2015

  If you know the why, the how takes care of itself.   Well, that’s not altogether true – it omits to mention the tremendous amount of planning and preparation that goes into ensuring that …

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    I’ve been running for about 24 years, always with a preference for long distance and ultras. I was a tar junkie for the first decade, and I have my fair share of Comrades and Two Oceans ultras under my belt, but I came to my senses when I moved to Cape Town 15 years ago and found trail. I’ve never looked back….

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