.WHAT RACE ARE YOU RUNNING?RUNNING THE RACE OF ADVENTURE

The Noordhoek Superbowl 21 km – 4 May 2024

When most things are out of one’s control, running trails teaches one to accept whatever...

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Ultra-trail Cape Town® 100 miles – 24 - 26 November 2023

Understudy: an athlete who ventures into the realm of aiming to complete a 100-mile foot...

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Run West Olifants 21 km – 24 September 2023

When one thinks of the West Coast of South Africa, usually wind swept, bright beach sand...

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Genadendal SkyRace® - 2 September 2023

The oldest mission station in South Africa, Genadendal (meaning Valley of Grac...

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The Jonkershoek Mountain Challenge – 20 May 2023

The privilege growing up near the foot of one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature of Table Mo...

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Ultra-Trail Drakensberg 100 Miles (160 km) – 22 - 24 April 2022

"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me" - John 10:27 This verse ca...

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100 X 100 Miles

Just over 100 Tales have been posted on trailblazer.international since 2011 when Trailb...

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Explorer: Ultra-Trail Cape Town 21 km – 28 November 2021

Connection. Besides the evocative adventure trail running provides over terrain that is ...

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Otter African Trail Run – 7 October 2021

Enjoy this Tale of Lisa running what is known as 'The Grail of Trail', on South Africa’s...

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Life is Living

“Why am I doing this?” is a question I ask myself more than once when running a trail ra...

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Africa Calling – Kili Trails

Adventure is the intersection of more than one experience at a time. Typically trail run...

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Cederberg Traverse 100 km – 5 October 2019

Raw. Rugged. Relative. The word that best explains the terrain of Cederberg Wilderness A...

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Light Trail legacy – 31 August 2019

How much will we be remembered in 150 years from now? With some self-reflection, probabl...

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(running) Circles in the Forest Trail Run – 10 August 2019

Running is repetitive. One step in front of the other. We keep moving forwards but never...

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Fish River (Ultra) revisited – 15 June 2019

Running a race is very different to volunteering at one. The former is an event, the lat...

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16 Mile Beach

The run was simple – traverse the entire length of South Africa’s longest uninterrupted ...

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addo elephant trail run 44 km – 16 March 2019

Most special moments cannot be orchestrated. Such a moment was had on this well-known Ul...

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Untold Ultra – Fish River Canyon 100 km

Like water having carved the deep Fish River Canyon in the arid Namibian landscape – the...

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Grootvadersbosch low-down – 8 July 2018

The photographs we post are untouched and unedited. Yet they are still limited. Limited ...

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Run Wind Park

We do not know where wind comes from, yet stewarding its effect principally brings about...

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