by Linda Doke | 26 Jun 2016 | All Articles, Featured Races
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 all fun in one way or another. For most of us, as...
by Linda Doke | 25 Apr 2016 | All Articles
Warning: this blog post is not for sensitive readers. It contains graphic stats that will shock and sicken, particularly those readers on distant shores. The stats speak of a reality that is South Africa – an angry, dark reality that can, and MUST, be changed....
by Linda Doke | 8 Mar 2016 | All Articles, Featured Races
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 – that way we can tick them off quicker! The...
by Linda Doke | 20 Feb 2016 | All Articles
EARWORM (noun): A song or tune that gets stuck in one’s mind and repeats as if on a tape. Also called cognitive itch, sticky tune, stuck song syndrome, involuntary musical imagery. There I was, 47km into the fourth day of running through the desert,...
by Linda Doke | 26 Nov 2015 | All Articles
Seems I’m on again about beasts – this being my second blog in a few months about the topic (read my blog on The Beast 2015). But this time it’s different. Rather than a bunch of runners trying to run up, over and down a beast of a mountain, this time...
by Linda Doke | 10 Oct 2015 | All Articles
Much has been said and loads already posted about Ultra Trail Cape Town 2015, but I couldn’t resist leaping onto the feedback bandwagon with a quick blog. This is not a race report – it can’t be, I ran neither the 100km nor the 65km. A dodgy Achilles peppered with a...
