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Featherbed/Phoenix Trail Run – 11 July 2017

It was one of those beautifully clear, icy mornings along South Africa’s Garden Route. Y...

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Sweet Spot – Dusk to Dawn

A sweet spot is the place where one finds oneself that makes sense, usually within a com...

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Ultra-trail Cape Town® 65 km – 10 December 2016

It is not about the distance. Sure, 65 kilometres is a long way - a long way to run, not...

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22 Waterfalls

We really like waterfalls. There’s something way more romantic and pleasing than just st...

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Fish Eagle Trail

African fish eagles fly and swoop. With precision they have an uncanny ability to snatch...

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Tracks

Tracks. It’s where one goes and what one leaves behind. Also known as Trailblazing, trac...

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Tsitsikamma Ultra – 23 April 2016

Antibodies. Sometimes the hardest part of the race is the preparation and mind shifting ...

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Blaize Trail

When we left the coast of Portugal after Sojourning 2015, little did we know that when w...

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At the End of the World?

At the end of Sojourning in 2015 we had arrived at the small fishing and surfing village...

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Common language – Marathon Trail Sierra Norte

By the time we arrived in Spain, we had got used to navigating through the language barr...

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Victoria Lines

Britain has the Hadrian’s Wall. China has its Great Wall. Malta has the Victoria Lines. ...

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Triglav

There is a tradition that exits that every Slovenian is expected to summit Triglav (2860...

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Eden?

“I wonder what Eden must have been like?” was one question that came across our minds as...

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Turkey – The Other Side

Generally, tourists stick out. This is no less true for Eastern Turkey, or what we call ...

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Cypriot Meandering

Laidback. That pretty much sums up Cyprus. With the history we were after, we managed to...

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Dana Biosphere

Just a little further north from Wadi Rum lies an expansive reserve known as Dana Biosph...

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A journey within a journey – sojourning…

What’s in a title? What does it mean? It is this very title that has come about by our o...

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Cederberg – 10-13 August 2014

A few nights in the Cederberg proved to be more than just a few nights, but rather a ful...

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Marloth Mountain Challenge – 27 September 2014

As I write this, I do so after 5 and a half months after I crossed the finish line of th...

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Trail du Mont Rochelle Trail Run – 31 August 2014

This 13km version of this inaugural trail run in Franschhoek was a circular up and down ...

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