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…
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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"
FinishTime Newsletter NEWSLETTER: October 2024 Is Boston qualifying time too tough? So you thought you were good qualifying for Comrades or Two Oceans with a 3-hour, 45-minute marathon time. Well, just to shatter your illusions of grandeur, not only would you not qualify for the 2025 Boston Marathon if you were a male under 35, but you would be 45 minutes off the pace. Yes, you read that right, you need to run a sub-3…
"Is Boston qualifying too tough?"
FinishTime Newsletter NEWSLETTER: July 2024 Sitius, Altius, Fortius – Communiter "Citius, Altius, Fortius – Communiter", or for us less intellectual jocks who have never understood Latin, "Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together". Yes, it is that time every four years when we sit glued to our screens for just over two weeks and watch the best of the best compete in 32 different sporting codes at the world's biggest sporting jamboree. The 2024 Olympics in Paris…
"Faster, Higher, Stronger in Paris"
FinishTime Newsletter NEWSLETTER: July 2024 Swim away the cobwebs with a bracing ocean swim Anybody taking an early morning dip on the Atlantic Seaboard in midwinter would normally attract questions about their sanity. However, on the first Sunday of every month, swimmers in the 36ONE Openwater Swim Series brave the icy-cold Atlantic in both summer and winter to take part in this popular event. According to the 36ONE Swim Series website, the story behind the…
"Swim away the cobwebs with a bracing swim"