by Linda Doke | 9 Mar 2012 | All Articles
It’s a fact: running too much on the black stuff melts the grey stuff.(Ok, maybe it’s still in the process of being proven, and the studies aren’t even slightly scientific, but hey, ask any trail runner – they’ll assure you they’re a lot brighter than the tar...
by Linda Doke | 25 Jan 2012 | All Articles
The silly season can do strange things to the brain… The brain then asks strange requests of the body… and then spends the next however-many-months begging the body to co-operate, hold together, and hang in there whilst request is executed. There’s usually...
by Linda Doke | 23 Nov 2011 | All Articles
Unfinished business isn’t healthy. It’s heavy baggage to drag around, and if left unattended, it can cause blisters on your psyche and eat into your soul. There’re only two ways of dealing with unfinished business: you either come to terms with the...
by Linda Doke | 11 Nov 2011 | All Articles
Just one more sleep til we touch the Sky. Not that most people’s pre-race night involves much sleep – it’s more like toss and turn. If the image above isn’t enough to get the butterflies a’fluttering, the adrenalin pumping and the stomach...
by Linda Doke | 15 Oct 2011 | All Articles
Every runner comes across them – the Run Naysayers: usually couch potatoes with an insatiable curiosity about what it is that makes us “need” to run. They’re filled with suspicion, determined to uncover some sort of deep-seated psychological disturbance we’re hiding,...
by Linda Doke | 19 Sep 2011 | All Articles
Saturday 17th September – sunny, 23 deg, not a breath of wind: a perfect day for running around, up and over the most picturesque mountain in Africa. What’s more, a designer day to showcase Cape Town to visiting world class international trail runners as the most...
