This week we were contacted by a finance professor, currently living in Singapore, who generally runs 20km of trail in the Singapore jungle, in temperatures of 30°C+, with massive amounts of humidity! He asked if we could tailor-make some longer trail runs for him, so that he could experience the natural beauty of our city, […]
Joining a running tour is a great way to meet like-minded people and have a laugh, while getting some exercise AND learning about the city you are visiting. A few weeks ago we had a fabulous trail run on the face of Table Mountain, one of the official new seven wonders of nature, with representatives […]
Nelson Mandela International Day was launched in recognition of Nelson Mandela’s birthday on 18 July. The day was officially declared by the United Nations in November 2009, with the first UN Mandela Day held on 18 July 2010. The idea behind Mandela Day is a global movement to honour Tata Madiba’s life legacy; to act to […]
With an increase in the numbers of runners out there, we have found that guided running tours have quickly become a very popular corporate event; both as a team building exercise and as a healthy, cultural activity that can be incorporated into the activities of a conference, incentive programme or team building event. The beauty […]
Peter is from Scotland, however his daughter married a South African so he has spent a lot of time in Cape Town and South Africa. On this visit to Cape Town he wanted to keep up his running fitness, as he is in training for a 10 mile race and then a half marathon in […]
Karien, avid runner and blogger, was in Cape Town this weekend as her husband was cycling the Argus, so she contacted us at Run Cape Town to organise a running tour for Saturday morning. As Karien is currently running with her 2 year-old daughter in a stroller in tow, we decided to give the Green Point […]
Last week Monica was visiting Cape town from Windhoek, Namibia, for the annual Mining Indaba held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, and she asked if Run Cape Town could custom-make an 18km running tour for her, following the route of the 2 Oceans Half Marathon. Inspired by this request, we made some minor […]
Vincent Luyanda Ntunja was born on 24 June 1981 in Gugulethu, a township just 20 minutes outside Cape Town’s city centre. He’s a professional model, TV presenter, motivational speaker, sports presenter and philanthropist. He also participates competitively in basketball, which he started playing 12 years ago in the dusty streets of Gugulethu. He has represented […]
I was in two minds as to whether to head out into the Cape Town heat for our city running tour on Wednesday morning, as circumstances dictated that we could only start our run at 8:30am – when the sun was already high in the sky & the temperature was at least 25°C (77°F) and […]
Kathy is a friend of a friend of mine, who I met whilst living on the Isle of Mann. Kath was in Cape Town for 2 days, as part of a longer world-wide adventure, including exploring Indonesia, Southern Africa and South America, and contacted Run Cape Town to do some running tours whilst she was […]
