by Linda Doke | 3 Apr 2011 | All Articles
What a special week: running 220km through the Namib Desert in the land of big skies, vast horizons, towering dunes, canyons, and mile upon mile of now grassland bursting with life, and sleeping each night under star-studded skies illuminated by electric storms....
by Linda Doke | 26 Mar 2011 | All Articles
Just 23 hours and counting before we hit the desert start line. I’m sitting in Cape Town International with a while til I board the plane, so keeping the Vida guys busy as I load up with enough quality latte’s to see me through the next five days. Anyone keen to set...
by Linda Doke | 20 Mar 2011 | All Articles
Today began the 7-day countdown to the Namib Desert Challenge. That’s certainly frightening enough to shake off my blogger’s block and get me posting again. (It’s all the running I’ve been doing, y’see, that’s kept me away from my screen. Well, at least that’s my...
by Linda Doke | 21 Feb 2011 | All Articles
I’ve run many miles over massive mountains, next to picturesque lakes, across glacial moraines, through forests and grasslands, along stretches of exquisite coastline, through day and night. Now it’s time to put my endurance to the real test by taking on a...
by Linda Doke | 13 Feb 2011 | All Articles
No runner ever needs an excuse to run Chapman’s Peak Drive – it’s there, that’s reason enough. Runners from the Republic of Hout Bay (Noordhoek too, of course, but I’m biased) have one of the most scenic roads in the world on their doorstep – it’s just...
by Linda Doke | 31 Jan 2011 | All Articles
Yesterday morning involved exercise – or better put, AN exercise. Said exercise not only involved a vigorous workout (which, of course, it would have to in order to earn the acclaimed term of exercise), but also an experiment. Subject of said experiment: me. Aim...
