Running around Table Mountain

Table Mountain in Cape Town is not only there for the view. Once a year, for 37 years, 15 000 runners decide to run around her in an ultra marathon.

Having written about Table Mountain in this weeks article, I thought it pertinent to mention how many people are running around her, and at some points over her, this weekend! Saturday 15 April is the Two Oceans Marathon day, an ultra marathon of 56kms, which could well be the most beautiful marathon course in the world. Starting at the foot of Table Mountain in the southern suburbs, runners follow a course that takes them along the Indian Ocean beaches, over the hills to the Atlantic Ocean side, over Chapmans Peak (which will be written about shortly), through the forests at Constantia Nek and back to the southern suburbs. Suffice to say I am sitting here writing this rather than running, although last year my sons did run the 2 km funrun!