by Linda Doke | 30 Mar 2020 | Rockhoppin' Recipes
Lockdown, the perfect reason for baking all sorts of scrumptious delights… in between trotting countless circuits of your lounge / kitchen / garden / driveway, if you are that way inclined. These apple muffins are a variation of a recipe my brother shared with...
by Linda Doke | 21 Aug 2019 | All Articles, Featured Races
Don’t we trail junkies all love a challenge! If a new route incorporates a combination of peaks to be bagged in a specific order within a time limit, trailsters are hungry to leap to the challenge. And if it involves nasty curveballs like altitude, technical...
by Linda Doke | 12 Jul 2019 | All Articles, Featured Races
The dramatic drop-offs along the knife-sharp ridgeline of the mountain Visočica made the mountain feel higher than its +1850m Just over two decades ago, the destination of Bosnia was not on any tourist’s bucket list of travel destinations. The only people queueing to...
by Linda Doke | 9 Jun 2019 | All Articles, Featured Races
The picturesque Vipava valley, at the foot of the Julian Alps in Slovenia Craig and I are on a two-month Balkan adventure, exploring central and eastern Europe. Now, before too many desk-dwellers grow green with envy, I must leap in to point out that I’ve not...
by Linda Doke | 10 Dec 2018 | All Articles, Running Health
…Iron-willed… … strong as iron… “Gold has its uses, but war is won with iron” … George R.R. Martin – A Dance With Dragons There’re a host of expressions about iron, Fe, atomic number 26, the second-most abundant metal on the earth’s crust. Ironically,...
by Linda Doke | 23 Nov 2018 | All Articles, Featured Races
Recipe for a great Himalayan high ~ Toss a generous assortment of runners from the UK, USA, Canada, Germany, France, South Africa, Mexico and Singapore with a strong swig of adventure, a hearty lungful of altitude, and a sturdy joint of ankle mobility. ~ Season...
