by Linda Doke | 8 Mar 2016 | All Articles, Featured Races
Which sounds further: 160km or 100 miles? I’ve now run six of them and I’m still not sure. But I’m certainly grateful that in South Africa the checkpoints are kilometres apart rather than miles – that way we can tick them off quicker! The...
by Linda Doke | 28 May 2015 | All Articles, Featured Races
“What is man without the beasts? For if all the beasts were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.” These wise words were uttered way back in the mid 1800s by a rather astute Native American chap named Chief Seattle. We must presume, of...
by Linda Doke | 19 Apr 2015 | All Articles, Featured Races
If you know the why, the how takes care of itself. Well, that’s not altogether true – it omits to mention the tremendous amount of planning and preparation that goes into ensuring that the how happens. That ‘small point’ aside, I wholeheartedly believe...
by Linda Doke | 15 Feb 2015 | All Articles, Featured Races
“Trail running is a dangerous sport, and ultra trail running is the extreme version of it, because the nature of the playground is wild and sometimes, like here in the Rann, quite inhospitable.” These are the words of Gaël Couturier, race director of Run...
by Linda Doke | 17 Nov 2014 | All Articles, Featured Races
Looking to do a 7-day self-sufficient stage race in a desert? Look no further than the Kalahari Augrabies Extreme Marathon (KAEM), long reputed to be the best organised self-sufficient stage race on the international trail running calendar. KAEM had been...
by Linda Doke | 17 Sep 2014 | All Articles, Featured Races
There’re so many reasons to run. We run for pleasure, for adventure, for challenge, for fun, for friendship, for competition. The sheer joy that running brings is pure in its simplicity, and it’s very real. Running makes our hearts smile, it makes us happy....
