uMhlanga Trail Run – One of the main events at this year’s uMhlanga Summer Festival is the highly-anticipated uMhlanga Trail Run that takes place on Sunday 18 December. uMhlanga Trail Run on Sunday 18 December This is the 19 running of the popular event in the seventh festival. The distances that keen … [Read more...]

The fourth Spur KZN Trail Series came to a conclusion this Saturday in the Valley of 1 000 Hills at the tranquil setting of iSithumba. In the men’s 11.3km long course Championship race, Eric Ngubane made it three wins out of three as he wrapped up another first place in a time of 48:59 to [...] The post Spur KZN Trail … [Read more...]

Calling all trail running enthusiasts!  Entries have opened for the AfricanXTrailrun presented by ASICS, South Africa’s premier three day stage trail run that will take place in the Western Cape the weekend of 11 – 13 March 2016. AfricanXTrailrun weekend “The food and the AfricanXvibe are really great, but the people … [Read more...]

You would have been forgiven if you thought the third race of the Spur Cape Winter Trail Series™ took place on a summer’s day as the sun shone down on over 900 trail runners at the Taal Monument in Paarl. Traditionally known as the fastest course of the Series, this year was no different with [...] The post Cape Winter … [Read more...]

Approximately 1 000 runners were met with a perfect Cape winter day as they made their way to the Paul Cluver Estate in the Overberg for the first race of the Spur Cape Winter Trail Series™ and the Spur GLB46 Ultra. Almost 100 runners took on the Spur GLB46 Ultra across the Groenlandberg. After an [...] Winter Trail … [Read more...]

After running 100 kilometres, it is heartbreaking to miss setting a new record by little over a kilometre in distance. For this year’s running of the Fish River Canyon Ultra, his only goal was to break the hiking trail route record. Missing it by only eight minutes was heartbreaking for K-Way athlete AJ Calitz. … [Read more...]

Knysna, South Africa – Top XTERRA SA Warriors, Carla Van Huyssteen and Stuart Marais will be seen throwing down the gauntlet at South Africa’s leading off-road triathlon, the Totalsports XTERRA Pezula presented by REHIDRAT® SPORT that will take place at the picturesque Conrad Pezula Field Of Dreams (Knysna) on … [Read more...]

The second Richtersveld Wildrun got underway at Sendelingsdrif this morning as almost 40 trail runners took off on the adventure of a lifetime. A few top athletes were amongst the excited faces and, as expected, the racing was hot at the front of the field, despite the cold weather and the absence of defending … [Read more...]

(Cape Town, 24 May 2015)  Bernard Rukadza and Landie Greyling won the inaugural Old Mutual Two Oceans Beast Trail Run – an event that marked a tough day in the office for everyone that participated in the 47km and 22km races. Rukadza, Christiaan Greyling and Dion Middelkoop ran together for most of the way – … [Read more...]