by Linda Doke | 24 May 2013 | All Articles
Following the announcement of southern Africa’s first Ultra Skymarathon®, the Lesotho Ultra Trail (LUT), the South African Skyrunning Association is excited to announce its next sanctioned event, the Matroosberg Trail Challenge – a Skymarathon®, 36km of...
by Linda Doke | 24 Apr 2013 | All Articles, Featured Races
Lesotho (from the Wikipedia definition): the Kingdom of Lesotho is a landlocked country, completely surrounded by South Africa. About 40% of the population live by the international poverty line of US$1.25/day. Over 80% of the country lies above 1,800m and...
by Linda Doke | 1 Apr 2013 | All Articles
Cape Town’s weather often struts its stuff over Easter – a carefully planned strategy to dissuade tourists from wanting to move here permanently. Trail runners don’t mind rain, it’s the wind we’re not fond of. Admittedly, no runner is, but encountering strong gusts...
by Linda Doke | 15 Mar 2013 | All Articles
In August 2012 I posted a blog warning you trail junkies out there to get ready for the arrival of Skyrunning in South Africa (read that blog post here). Well, that time has come! The news is out. It’s official. 30th November, northern Lesotho. Carve the date in...
by Linda Doke | 10 Mar 2013 | All Articles
There’s nothing quite like tight competition to introduce a twist to a race, churn things up and add a whole lot of spice to the mix. This year’s Addo 76km did exactly that, and the results reflected it. This was the ninth running of the Addo 50 Miler. Two factors...
by Linda Doke | 17 Feb 2013 | All Articles, Athlete Interviews
How does one do justice in a simple blogpost to someone whose achievements have rocked the trail running world for the past (8) years, and whose victories are too numerous to list on a single page. I’d say it’s a pretty tough challenge, but one which I shall attempt –...