FinishTime Newsletter NEWSLETTER: DECEMBER 2025 THE WORLD'S DEEPEST MARATHON Marathons have been run under diverse conditions, at varying times, and in locations all around the world. But on 25 October 2025, race organisers went to a new level — quite literally — when they staged a marathon over a kilometre beneath the earth’s surface. Sixty athletes representing seventeen nations descended over a kilometre below the earth’s surface to tackle an extraordinary test of endurance — the…
"World’s Deepest Marathon"Category: Newsletters
FinishTime Newsletter NEWSLETTER: NOVEMBER 2025 CAPE TOWN MARATHON CANCELLED: RIGHT OR WRONG? At 5am on Sunday, 19 October, a WhatsApp message went out to 22 000 runners: The Cape Town Marathon was cancelled – and hearts broke across the city. As a parent whose son had spent months preparing for his first marathon, I got the call just after five: “Don’t worry to come, Mom. The marathon has been cancelled.” I was absolutely gobsmacked, not being…
"CT Marathon Decision: Right or Wrong?"
FinishTime Newsletter NEWSLETTER: OCTOBER 2025 AFRICA SHINES ON THE WORLD STAGE Not only have the Springboks covered themselves in glory over the past few months, but September and October have also been stand-out months for South Africa and Africa on the cycling front. Two of South Africa’s cyclists shone on the world stage and Rwanda made history by being the first African county to host the UCI Road World Championships. South Africa’s home grown, Alan Hatherly…
"Africa Shines On World Stage"
FinishTime Newsletter NEWSLETTER: May 2025 RUN FOR YOUR LIFE… Set in the most remote and hostile environments on earth, the Global Race Series is arguably the most brutal race series in the world. Competitors literally run for their lives to avoid being eaten alive, dying of heat exhaustion or freezing to death. In this surreal series, runners challenge themselves by participating in brutal extreme trail running events around the globe in four different extremely harsh…
"Run For Your Life…"
FinishTime Newsletter NEWSLETTER: April 2025 31 Marathons in 31 Days The excitement is mounting because this weekend in Cape Town, 29 000 runners from all over the world will be descending on the Mother City for the 54th Totalsports Two Oceans Ultra Marathon. Running and finishing this iconic event is a major accomplishment, but it pales in significance when compared to what local runner, Matthew Trichardt achieved by running 31 marathons in 31 days in an…
"31 Marathons in 31 Days"
FinishTime Newsletter NEWSLETTER: March 2025 Breaking Boundaries On the 8th February at the 2025 Millrose Games in New York, American Yared Nugus broke the indoor mile world record with a blistering time of 3:46.63. His team-mate, Hobbs Kessler, competing in the same event, also beat the old record (3:46.90). Remarkably, the record that was broken had stood for five years since it was set by Yomif Kejelcha in 2019. Just five days later, Jakob Ingebrigtsen…
"Breaking Boundaries"
FinishTime Newsletter NEWSLETTER: February 2025 South Africans ready to meet the challenge South Africans love a challenge … and the harder the test, the more we seem to want to prove ourselves, so it is hardly surprising that South Africa plays host to some of the biggest and toughest ultra-distance races in the world. In a couple of weeks’ time, the 52nd aQuelle Midmar Mile takes place with over 12 000 swimmers with vastly different abilities…
"SA sport meets the challenge"
FinishTime Newsletter NEWSLETTER: January 2025 Goodbye 2024 … let's be even better in 2025 December is upon us and what a year 2024 has been. The end of the year is always a time to reflect on the past 12 months, when we also tend to make promises (that we inevitably don’t keep) about what we are going to do, or not do, over the next 12 months, but for now, let's look back at 2024…
"Goodbye 2024"
FinishTime Newsletter NEWSLETTER: December 2024 SA Road Running Loses Iconic Figure On Wednesday, November 20, the running community awakened to the sad news that Colleen McNally, an iconic figure in the athletics community, had passed away after a long battle with cancer. A school teacher by profession, McNally was not a runner herself, but became an integral part of the running community as an experienced and highly-regarded race referee. According to The Citizen, McNally was…
"Road Running Loses An Iconic Figure"
FinishTime Newsletter NEWSLETTER: November 2024 Don't be left behind this summer No one can deny that spring has definitely sprung and summer is on its way. Summer in South Africa comes with much more than just beautiful, hot weather. There is also Christmas, New Year and long summer holidays to look forward to. Most people are energised in spring to start training hard as they want to get their bodies "beach ready", shed a few…
"Don’t be left behind this summer"