Club Standards? Surely they can’t be that high if they approved my membership application! Jokes aside, this has been a fun challenge (for me personally) and I look forward to it growing in the future. The club standards is essentially just a big spreadsheet that plots your performance against various popular race distances over the…
I woke up on Sunday at 3:50am, it was Chapmans Peak 21km. You know the route, it’s going to be great, I thought to myself. I was ready and feeling excited to fetch Moira and Amy, as it was Moira’s first race after Comrades. I was so happy to be with them on such a…
It’s 03.00, PUFfeR Race Day 2025. At long, long, bloody long last. After weeks of fretting over what to pack, how to pack it and wishing I could just pack it in, I’m more than ready to pack up and run. I yawn, swing my legs out of bed and think how inadequate to the…
When asked to write a race report, I thought “oh my word, how on earth will I manage… ” cause to be quite honest Comrades feels like a bit of a blur. A blur with snippets of pure magic. I never had any real inclination of EVER doing Comrades but one morning somewhere in November…
After next to no sleep, I anxiously forced down my oats and meticulously put on my race kit. It felt like I was armouring up for the biggest battle of my life, and as it turns out, it probably was. I haven’t been running for very long, around three years, and have strangely managed to…
The Slave Route Challenge Not every race is a history lesson, but that is part of what makes the Slave Route Challenge (SRC) so special: it draws attention to our history and heritage. Cape Town is a marvellous City, but like many of the world’s beautifully constructed cities, it was built on the back of…
Last weekend was the WPA 10km road championship as part of the UWC fast and flat event which I believe was the 28th Edition. I had the privilege of of chaperoning a number of 🐝’s which included 2 of our sponsored runners 🏃. With this in mind I would like to share my interaction with…
The Beginners – Group 1, 2025 I looked out at a group of anxious or perhaps excited faces at the FHAC Beginner’s course orientation and felt the excitement of guiding these potential runners to their first 10km race. I knew nothing about them but already I believed in them because they had shown up. We…
The 2025 Totalsports 56km Two Oceans Ultra Marathon was to date the greatest achievement in my running career as of the present. It was a spectacular event with amazing support and motivation along the way to keep pushing me to my dreams of being the youngest finisher for the 2025 year. As of currently there…
Somewhere in 2015 I joined at that time one of the best Running Clubs in the world, Fish Hoek Athletics! Or at least that is what I believed, to be proven wrong some 10 years later. Somehow a very special and much valued roommate did have a final convincing say in the matter of joining….