Two Oceans 2023 Gosh, I can honestly say I was very nervous about participating in this race, it was my second time, my last was in 2018, so… been a while. The morning had arrived and with very little sleep the night before, which I am sure many can identify with, the butterflies were not…
I went into 2 Oceans Ultra Marathon a bit unprepared this year. With milkwood half marathon being the longest road run I had done in a few months, I had very little expectations. However, my goal was to try and run a silver or anywhere near the 4-hour mark. The race started at a very…
If you’re on the Cape Town Runners Facebook group you’ll be well aware of the displeasure around the gigantic queues, generously sized shirts and (lack of) goodie bag caused. The five toilets at the start weren’t awesome either, but if we didn’t have toilet queues to hang out in at the start would it even…
Yes, men can run this one providing they dress the part. So, we did but I still have a sore arm after having it twisted by some of my club mates. There were three of us old 70+ supermodels Heidi Klum (aka Horst) Twiggy (aka Theo) and Naomi Campbell (aka Neville) who had to be…
One foot in front of the other… That’s what I kept on telling myself when I was deep into the pain cave. The morning of the race, I woke up with nerves and excitement… And then nerves again but knowing that I had put in all the hard work to get to this point made…
February in Oudtshoorn and shivering from the cold are not often used in the same sentence. Yet somehow, I found myself with chattering teeth on the back of a truck somewhere in the Klein Karoo. Perhaps a combination of nerves, cold weather and remnants of some flu I’ve been trying to shake, but there we…
Trepidation is an emotion that is not uncommon when standing at the start of a marathon, but milling around the throng of fellow runners on Somerset Road just after 5am on a cool summer’s morning I had more questions swirling around my head than usual. My previous marathon – Cape Town Marathon in October –…
STBB Redhill Classic 36km Marshall’s run……my second longest distance so far. If someone had said to me early last year that I would be doing these distances, I would NEVER have believed them. Having said that, this run is most certainly on the top of my list of favorites. Every single step was absolutely breathtaking….
Saturday 26 November was the occasion of my first, and hopefully not my last Winelands half marathon. Annelize organized a house for 8 of us (4 marathoners and 4 halfies) and it was wonderful getting to know some of my clubmates a bit better. We had a fun Italian meal out on the town on…
D Day – 5pm Friday 25 Nov 2022 The culmination of a focused 4-month training block with many 100km+ weeks. After some car lift PT on race day, I eventually toe’d the line with 140 other brave, or stupid, runners. The atmosphere was electric and DVG and the Gibbons brothers next to me started to…