by Linda Doke | 5 Aug 2012 | All Articles
Race winner William Robinson making the Karbonkelberg descent look easy Last Saturday was the 11th running of my favourite local race, the Hout Bay Trail Challenge. What makes it my favourite? That’s easy – it’s special: not only because it’s another reason (if I ever...
by Linda Doke | 8 Jul 2012 | All Articles
Place 35 eager runners in the desert. Add much enthusiasm, comfortable accommodation, a hearty spread of good food, and an open bar. Leave to brew. Stir in medium distances, liberally laced with looming canyons, generous technical trail, stark landscapes, and vistas...
by Linda Doke | 8 Jun 2012 | All Articles
That’s 89.3km done and dusted, and I’ve completed my long run to freedom – it’s g’bye T*R for me, ahead lies the running I want to do, that I love to do. Trail’s like that, it gets into your blood, it makes you look at rocks, waterfalls, mountains and vistas...
by Linda Doke | 5 May 2012 | All Articles
Real Tarahumara Indians Did you know, the Garden Route has its very own Tarahumara Indian? Well, practically… ok, not quite. He’s not Mexican, he doesn’t live in a canyon or have to run around the wilderness for days looking for...
by Linda Doke | 8 Apr 2012 | All Articles
Cape Town weather struts its stuff every Easter Saturday for the Two Oceans Marathon, usually with sunshine and wind. Yesterday it showed its mischievous sense of humour – the skies pee’d down good and proper, drenching all Half and Ultra runners to...
by Linda Doke | 19 Mar 2012 | All Articles
Last weekend I indulged in 9 hours of semi-hedonistic euphoria. I guess non-runners would think I’m loony if I tried to explain them to why. I think only you trail running junkies will understand.I guess the grin I had on my face for most of the 82km said it all – it...
