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...
by Linda Doke | 19 Oct 2018 | All Articles, Featured Races
Anyone who’s done one of Trevor (Curve)Ball’s events knows he loves throwing surprises at runners. His events (Two Oceans Trail Run, The Beast, The Bastille Trail Run, Table Mountain Challenge and the Cederberg Traverse) have been going for years, and...
by Linda Doke | 21 May 2017 | All Articles, Featured Races
I’m torn. And I mean, really torn. My head wants to write about the wonderful experience I had last week, telling the world how fantastic it was to run in the African bush with wild game and to see, feel, taste and smell true southern African bush veld. But my...
by Linda Doke | 28 Sep 2016 | All Articles, Featured Races
NOTE: This is not a race report on the Tor des Géants 2016. It is instead a colourful, or rather dark, description of my short experience of that fantastic race. (Warning: this post is not for readers whose stomachs are of a sensitive disposition…)...
by Linda Doke | 1 Aug 2016 | All Articles, Featured Races
Harsh, rugged dolomite peaks and mountainous landscapes ripped, cut and carved over millennia of geological shifts, this is Zagori – a 1 000km2 region in northwestern Greece near the Albanian border, far off the tourist path and majestic in its...
by Linda Doke | 26 Jun 2016 | All Articles, Featured Races
There are races. Many races. Short, long, single or multi-day, self-sufficient… they’re popping up everywhere and there’re loads to choose from. Every one of them is challenging – some more than others – and they’re all fun in one way or another. For most of us, as...
