Grocott's Mail
  • NEWS
    • Courts & Crime
    • Features
    • Politics
    • People
    • Health & Well-being
  • SPORT
    • News
    • Results
    • Sports Diary
    • Club Contacts
    • Columns
    • Sport Galleries
    • Sport Videos
  • OPINION
    • Election Connection
    • Makana Voices
    • Deur ‘n Gekleurde Bril
    • Newtown… Old Eyes
    • Incisive View
    • Your Say
  • ARTSLIFE
    • Cue
    • Makana Sharp!
    • Visual Art
    • Literature
    • Food & Fun
    • Festivals
    • Community Arts
    • Going Places
  • OUR TOWN
    • What’s on
    • Spiritual
    • Emergency & Well-being
    • Safety
    • Civic
    • Municipality
    • Weather
    • Properties
      • Grahamstown Properties
    • Your Town, Our Town
  • OUTSIDE
    • Enviro News
    • Gardening
    • Farming
    • Science
    • Conservation
    • Motoring
    • Pets/Animals
  • ECONOMIX
    • Business News
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Personal Finance
  • EDUCATION
    • Education NEWS
    • Education OUR TOWN
    • Education INFO
  • Covid-19
  • EDITORIAL
Facebook Twitter Instagram
Trending
  • Alicedale mother weeps in pain for raped and murdered three-year-old  
  • Homeless, Hopeless and Forgotten
  • Don’t normalise the abnormal, justice must be served
  • “A healthy body, a healthy mind” is Rhodes University Sports’ motto as they prepare for USSA 2023 tournament
  • St. Mary’s Development and Care Centre 40th anniversary gala dinner
  • iSt Marks iphumelele kumdlalo neLeicester City
  • Five weeks of misery without water
  • Akhona Mafani’s road to success
Facebook Twitter Instagram
Grocott's Mail
  • NEWS
    • Courts & Crime
    • Features
    • Politics
    • People
    • Health & Well-being
  • SPORT
    • News
    • Results
    • Sports Diary
    • Club Contacts
    • Columns
    • Sport Galleries
    • Sport Videos
  • OPINION
    • Election Connection
    • Makana Voices
    • Deur ‘n Gekleurde Bril
    • Newtown… Old Eyes
    • Incisive View
    • Your Say
  • ARTSLIFE
    • Cue
    • Makana Sharp!
    • Visual Art
    • Literature
    • Food & Fun
    • Festivals
    • Community Arts
    • Going Places
  • OUR TOWN
    • What’s on
    • Spiritual
    • Emergency & Well-being
    • Safety
    • Civic
    • Municipality
    • Weather
    • Properties
      • Grahamstown Properties
    • Your Town, Our Town
  • OUTSIDE
    • Enviro News
    • Gardening
    • Farming
    • Science
    • Conservation
    • Motoring
    • Pets/Animals
  • ECONOMIX
    • Business News
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Personal Finance
  • EDUCATION
    • Education NEWS
    • Education OUR TOWN
    • Education INFO
  • Covid-19
  • EDITORIAL
Grocott's Mail
You are at:Home»Uncategorized»Mountain Drive race a muddy success
Uncategorized

Mountain Drive race a muddy success

Grocott's MailBy Grocott's MailAugust 10, 2011No Comments2 Mins Read
Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email

Organisers warned that deeply furrowed roads and muddy descents would make this year’s Oak Cottage Kwikspar Mountain Drive half-marathon more challenging than most.

Organisers warned that deeply furrowed roads and muddy descents would make this year’s Oak Cottage Kwikspar Mountain Drive half-marathon more challenging than most.

A chilly drizzle and biting winds on the morning also ensured that they were right. But true to form, the hearty participants brought high spirits along with them to look back on another successful instalment to this much-loved race.

Just eight brave walkers took off for their competition a little after 7am, followed by some 150 runners an hour later. The course took runners and walkers through Grahamstown’s quiet streets and onto Mountain Drive at Grey Dam.

Following the tough climb, runners faced freezing gusts on the exposed mountain traverse, before a treacherous descent through patches of gravel and mud that led them to relative warmth as they crossed back over the N2.

A chug through the industrial area left one more leg through the slowly waking suburbs to the finish at Albany Sports Club and a hard-fought beverage in the festive clubhouse. Eric Sigxashe, 33, from Mr Price Port Elizabeth took top honours for his club in a time of 1:11:19.

Used to playing second fiddle to the more celebrated EP athlete and reigning Two Oceans champ, George Ntshiliza, the smiling Sigxashe seemed at home in the difficult conditions.

“It was very cold at the top of the mountain,” he explained, “but I’m used to holes in the ground. It’s normal where I train in Motherwell. And I’ve run this race the last two years, so I know the route well.”

Grahamstown's Jene Banfield of Run/Walk For Life Athletics Club was the overall women's winner, finishing in 1:37:22 and thus winning the women's 40-49 category.

She was followed by Davera Magson (Nedbank) and Priscilla Dyantyi. Nedbank Running Club members, Mariano Eesou and Anele Maliza, won the remaining two podium positions. Richard Alexander (Albany) was the winner of the walking section, finishing in 2:23:39 with 71 year old Eric Wells finishing fourth.

Previous ArticleRowers camp for champs
Next Article My Katberg mud fairy tale
Grocott's Mail

Comments are closed.

Tweets by Grocotts
Newsletter



Listen

The Rhodes University Community Engagement Division has launched Engagement in Action, a new podcast which aims to bring to life some of the many ways in which the University interacts with communities around it. Check it out below.

Humans of Makhanda

Humans of Makhanda

Weather    |     About     |     Advertise     |     Subscribe     |     Contact     |     Support Grocott’s Mail

© 2023 Maintained by School of Journalism & Media Studies.

Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.