by Linda Doke | 6 Feb 2018 | All Articles, Favourite Photographers
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life”. Craig Kolesky is a big gun. As a Red Bull photographer, he has shot motorcross, big wave surfing, skateboarding, climbing, kitesurfing, cycling, lifestyle, sport portraits, and oh yes,...
by Linda Doke | 3 Dec 2013 | All Articles
So there I was, on the start line of the Lesotho Ultra Trail (LUT), Africa’s first Ultra Skymarathon, 50km of gruelling, lung-busting technical trail in the Maloti mountains of Lesotho. This would be skyrunning at its best, throwing at us everything a skyrunning event...
by Linda Doke | 12 Jul 2013 | All Articles, Featured Races
On Saturday 6 July, the South African ultra distance team of seven trail runners took on reputedly the world’s best in the World Ultra Trail Championships in Wales. More than 150 runners from 20 countries started the 78km race, a course of five 15km laps set in the...
by Linda Doke | 29 Jun 2013 | All Articles
Tick… tock… tick… tock… The clock is ticking… There’re seven days and counting til the World Ultra Trail Champs 2013 in north Wales, where the SA team will be battling it out against 80 men and 60 women from 22 countries. While SA’s sports administrators...
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...
