by Linda Doke | 27 Jan 2015 | All Articles
2015: a new year, fresh legs, action-packed challenges! First up, an ultra with a difference: instead of dramatic scenery with mountains, forests, streams, canyons or deserts as with my five ultras last year (Whale of Trail 52km, Outeniqua Quest 108km, Fish River...
by Linda Doke | 17 Nov 2014 | All Articles, Featured Races
Looking to do a 7-day self-sufficient stage race in a desert? Look no further than the Kalahari Augrabies Extreme Marathon (KAEM), long reputed to be the best organised self-sufficient stage race on the international trail running calendar. KAEM had been...
by Linda Doke | 23 Oct 2014 | All Articles
Yesterday I had the privilege of joining Freedom Runners Mimi Anderson and Samantha Gash on the 29th day of their incredible 32-day, +2 000km run from Pietermaritzburg to Paarl, in South Africa. I last saw Mimi and Samantha when they were in Cape Town, three days...
by Linda Doke | 24 Sep 2014 | All Articles
Today was Day 1 of what will no doubt be the toughest run yet done on South African soil. Following the route of the 2 350km Freedom Trail, a gruelling event much hallowed by even the bravest mountain bikers, the Freedom Run is a challenge being tackled by two...
by Linda Doke | 17 Sep 2014 | All Articles, Featured Races
There’re so many reasons to run. We run for pleasure, for adventure, for challenge, for fun, for friendship, for competition. The sheer joy that running brings is pure in its simplicity, and it’s very real. Running makes our hearts smile, it makes us happy....
by Linda Doke | 28 Aug 2014 | All Articles, Featured Races
Never again, I had said, never again. That was back in 2007, after my second Tuffer Puffer. Somehow, over the seven years since, I had forgotten I’d said that. I guess I can blame my short memory partly on time’s ability to morph naivety into reality, and...
