by Linda Doke | 4 Aug 2022 | All Articles, Featured Races
Life’s a beach… and then you run one! If you’re looking for a trail run to simply cruise from start to finish, then Whale of Trail’s not the one for you. This race finish is not easy to bag. Sure, as ultras go this one’s at the shorter end of the ultra-distance...
by Linda Doke | 3 Jul 2022 | All Articles, Featured Races
Whoever thought Treasure Island was only a book hasn’t experienced the idyllic simplicity of Mozambique’s Inhaca Island. Fresh coconuts, chilled Mac-Mahon 2M (Moz’s local brew), pregos, palm trees, prawn platters, burnt-golden sunsets through the mangroves, sand...
by Linda Doke | 1 Apr 2021 | All Articles, Featured Races
I’m on a rock-raving pluck this week. It happens whenever I spend time in the mountains – I think I get filled with some sort of geomorphological energy that inspires me to evangelise in unpronounceable words about topographic and bathymetric features of which I have...
by Linda Doke | 21 Aug 2019 | All Articles, Featured Races
Don’t we trail junkies all love a challenge! If a new route incorporates a combination of peaks to be bagged in a specific order within a time limit, trailsters are hungry to leap to the challenge. And if it involves nasty curveballs like altitude, technical...
by Linda Doke | 12 Jul 2019 | All Articles, Featured Races
The dramatic drop-offs along the knife-sharp ridgeline of the mountain Visočica made the mountain feel higher than its +1850m Just over two decades ago, the destination of Bosnia was not on any tourist’s bucket list of travel destinations. The only people queueing to...
by Linda Doke | 9 Jun 2019 | All Articles, Featured Races
The picturesque Vipava valley, at the foot of the Julian Alps in Slovenia Craig and I are on a two-month Balkan adventure, exploring central and eastern Europe. Now, before too many desk-dwellers grow green with envy, I must leap in to point out that I’ve not...
