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SPAIN, 12 May 2018 The South African team of Stewart Chaperon, Naomi Brand, and Annalise Scholtz flew to Spain to tackle the 86km Penyagolosa race, along with the best trail runners from 48 other countries. The star performance was from Naomi. She fe

Collagen gives our bodies strength and structure. Within our bodies are connective tissues: fascia, ligaments, muscles, tendons, and your skin. Collagen, a long, strand-like insoluble fibre, makes up most of our connective tissue. In fact, it account

Access 7am-5pm all year Dogs No Entry R30 / Trails various / Best route 26km / Ascent 890m / Difficulty moderate / Time 5 h Legacy water supply infrastructure, Boer War Forts, train lines and the world’s highest narrow gauge bridge, route finding and

Sometimes I think I have too much energy. I’m not talking about the puppy bouncing off the walls type of hyper. My excess is not sleeping as much as I’d like. I go to bed early enough, but then wake up refreshed after five or at most six hours, excit

Access All day, all year Dogs No Entry R10 / Trails various / Best route 30km / Ascent 950m / Difficulty challenging / Time 5 h For travellers on the N2, Platberg is an icon. It has a different significance for athletes who have challenged the mounta

I met the Sandys during the 22km Hilton College Trail Run in May 2018. They were impressive. Sandra Land was a joy to watch with her powerful calves, white hair, and smiles as she bounced along technical sections. Sandy Cromie awed me with her grit a

Access All day, all year Dogs No Entry free / Trails 3 / Best route 9km / Ascent 350m / Difficulty challenging / Time 65 min A top trail is one that you don’t want to do with a bicycle, and Klapperkop is just that. With few flats and no entrance fee,

Confession time: I don’t actually like running. Sometimes I even hate it. But I love trusting my feet to find the next rock, leaping confidently and gracefully. I love looking back once I’ve reached the top of a climb and seeing how far I’ve come. I

TRAIL team members Deon and Heloise use flaxseed and aquafaba as egg substitutes while cooking and baking. We decided to dig up even more to help you out! Below we explain how to use the various substitutes. When you open up a can of chickpeas, do yo

Access All day, all year Dogs No Entry R40 / Trails various / Best route 23km / Ascent 820m / Difficulty intermediate / Time 4 h This trail has a treat 10km in: an absurdly large pointy chunk of rock, and a trove of San rock paintings. Start at the C

WORDS DEON BRAUN In March, we attended the debut screening of a hard-hitting multiscreen documentary by Durban artist Janet Solomon, titled Becoming Visible. The film reveals the harm to the eastern board's ocean ecosystems by oil and gas exploration

The Wild Atlantic Way is magnificent beauty at its best. It combines the ruggedness of the Karoo with the abundance of the Garden Route. It offers the intrepid explorer 2,500km of coastline tracing nine counties of the Republic of Ireland. It’s not a

Access All day, all year Dogs No Entry free / Trails 1 / Best route 13km / Ascent 600m / Difficulty tough / Time 120 min If you’ve run or hiked some of these historic Anglo-Boer War or ox-wagon routes before, you might also have wondered if these har

It's so refreshing to watch a trail running film which A) isn't American, and B) isn't about a race. Enter Trials of Miles, where Aussie paddler Beau Miles documents his solo run through the Aussie bush. He has tackled endurance challenges before. He

ALEX HUTCHINSON • ENDURE HarperCollins Publishers | R330 Eliud Kipchoge is part of Nike’s Breaking2 project to take a runner under two hours for the marathon. He ran 2:00:25 on 6 May 2017. It’s not a world record because of several factors (the offic

Nicky's friend and former coach YOLANDE SPEEDY knows the Turbo Mamba extremely well after 14 years. Speedy is perfectly named as a pro mountain biker turned runner, trail runner, and adventure racer. "The first time I heard of the exceptionally menta

As lovers of the outdoors and wildlife, it’s only natural that most trail runners also have a soft spot for dogs… It’s not surprising that the term ‘trail dog’ often crops up in casual trail running discussions these days. In fact (if Instagram posts

The route was the same as every other Sunday morning. The dogs would rush between every shrubby bush along the blackjacked ridgeline to sniff out the scent of what creature had used it as an overnight abode. This was our weekly church My stepfather w

AFRICANX TRAILRUN 2018 presented by ASICS South Africa The AfricanX Trailrun presented by ASICS is the oldest surviving trail stage race in South Africa. The tenth edition in April reminded us that, no matter how successful you are, you should never