FEEDBACK: Saturday 16 April 2016 Rhodes Memorial –Plum Pudding -King's Blockhouse

A chilly morning for a change, and darker than we've become accustomed to over the past few months, but clear and dry and perfect for a jog on the mountain.

A large group assembled at the Old Zoo parking at a slightly later start time than previous weeks and split into two groups after a route briefing by Randolph. The Fast group was led by Hein and the Medium group by Natalie. There were quite a few newbies as well as some of Tim's/Mates groups, and some returnees from days long past.

Plum Pudding and Heartbreak Hill were their usual stodgy, heartbreaking selves, reducing us to a huffing-puffing bunch of red-faced plodders. (I speak for the Medium Group here - I'm sure the Fasties raced up in no time at all!) Once at the turnstile however, we careened round the bends of the boardwalk and tore through the rocky single track like lightening, zig-zagging between the green mossy trunks of young trees and boulder hopping like dassies.  The final stretch of jeep track brought us out into the sunshine of a beautiful autumn day.

The main group did a lot of kilometres in a little time, and the Medium Group covered 11.5 kms in just under 2 hours.The Slow group are sorely missed with the gap between the two groups becoming seemingly greater each week!

Congratulations to Hein on his 50 sorties with the Trailers and Michelle Barnard on her 25.

FEEDBACK: Saturday 9th April - Hole in the Wall (Boyes Drive)

 

An unexpectedly large group of 38 trailers gathered in the pre-dawn at Hole in the Wall on a beautiful warm calm morning. The long uphill at the start hadn't put people off!

The fast group was ably led by Gregg Smith and did around 13kms in 2h37 - the route including going up Pecks valley, up to Higher Steenberg peak and up to the Amphitheatre!

The medium group was led by committee and completed 9kms in 2h05 - not so many hills...

Both groups split at the end with some people going down to Bailey's Kloof and back along the road and the others taking the trail back to Hole in the Wall, so times and mileage were marginally different.

Liz Brash

There were so many beautiful photos of the run by Liz, Jo and Lorraine. We have selected only a few for the blog. Many more on the facebook page.

FEEDBACK Saturday 2nd April - Signal Hill/Lions Head

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FEEDBACK: TABLE MOUNTAIN TRAILERS Saturday 19th March 2016 - Tranquillity Cracks

This Saturday the Fast group tackled a tough 14km route up Corridor Ravine. We were rewarded by breathtaking views over a windless Camps Bay and even stumbled across two buck high up on the slopes before the climb up Corridor. The group consensus was that they might have been Klipspringer.

The jovial chit chat came to a sudden end as we all hauled ourselves up the ravine, with no breath left to talk. We did some sight seeing at Tranquility Cracks, took in the views, then hit the undulating single track all the way to Kasteelspoort. We descended with caution with lots of passing hiking traffic, and dodged dogs and strollers along the rocky Pipetrack. 

We made good time back to the cars in 2h43mins. Thanks everyone for a great run!

---Tamsyn

The Medium group did a 9km circuit of Signal Hill and Lion's Head. What was nice about this route was the amount of running that we did, as opposed to walking and hiking, We completed our route in 1h38 mins.

FEEDBACK: TABLE MOUNTAIN TRAILERS: Saturday March 12th - Two Oceans Trail Recces

The TMT T-shirts (see the About Us page for explanation of the colours.)