Africa is home to some of the world’s largest and most unique deserts, including the Sahara, Namib and Kalahari. Increasingly, these deserts and other parts of the continent with desert and semi-desert characteristics, host a wide range of footraces, making Africa the premier international desert running destination. Unfortunately, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, various... Continue Reading →
Africa is home to three of the world’s largest deserts – the Sahara, Namib, and Kalahari, as well as many semi-desert areas. Increasingly, these locations host a wide range of footraces, making Africa the premier international desert running destination. This calendar highlights the desert footraces to be held in 2020 in various parts of Africa.... Continue Reading →
Africa is home to three of the world’s largest and most unique deserts – the Sahara, Namib, and Kalahari. Increasingly, these deserts host a wide range of footraces, making Africa the premier international desert running destination. The following list highlights some of the main single and multi-stage desert footraces which will be held during 2019... Continue Reading →
Don’t be fooled by the heading, this is not the new lyrics of the well-known Roxette song or a juicy love story from the recent Kalahari Augrabries Extreme Marathon (KAEM). Instead, when it is hot in the Kalahari Desert, things can go wrong, and if you run with a weak heart, there could be grave... Continue Reading →
The 2018 Fire and Ice Ultra in Iceland was a tough and challenging race in a special part of the world. I returned to South Africa with many fond memories of Iceland, the race itself, and people who I met before and during the race. Iceland is called the land of fire and ice for... Continue Reading →
This blog covers the period from 20-25 August 2018. It is only two days to go before the start of the 2018 Fire and Ice Ultra in Iceland. I arrived this morning at the Fire and Ice Ultra headquarters in Akureyri, in the north of Iceland. It’s been an interesting journey to get here, to... Continue Reading →
This blog covers the period from 13-19 August 2018. This time next week I will be running the first stage of the 250km Fire and Ice Ultra in Iceland. It is incredible how quickly time flies. It feels like yesterday when I started training for the race back in March, and now, six months later,... Continue Reading →
Millions of young girls in South Africa, and across the African continent, miss days of school because they cannot afford sanitary products during their monthly menstrual period cycle. Some of them must resort to using old pieces of cloth or newspapers as an unhygienic substitute, which in turn could cause them to lose more days... Continue Reading →
Dean Wight is a sales representative for global sports brand, Asics, in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape. Dean started running in 1979 when he was only 11 years old. This week Dean turned 50, and he is still passionate about road running. He is also helping other runners in KwaZulu-Natal achieve their goals, and over... Continue Reading →
This blog covers the period from 30 July - 5 August 2018. Today marks the three-week countdown to the start of the 2018 Fire and Ice Ultra in Iceland. It is also the start of the final three weeks of my seven-week #NGOs4Africa Campaign. The primary focus of my campaign over the past week was... Continue Reading →
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