by Axel Rittershaus | 11 Dec 2017 | Marathon, Race Review
My Two Oceans Qualifier: The Prison to Prison Marathon To be able to start at the 2018 Two Oceans Ultra Marathon, I was required to run a qualifier marathon. Usually I run the Red Hill Marathon in January and the Peninsula Marathon in February. Well, for 2018 that...
by Axel Rittershaus | 7 Nov 2017 | Race Review
Sometimes I am very lucky and I can combine a business trip with a running experience. This time a trip to Hong Kong and Singapore gave me the opportunity to run a half marathon in Singapore. I facilitated a leadership training in Singapore on Thursday/Friday and...
by Axel Rittershaus | 15 May 2017 | Race Review, Ultra Marathon
Being able to run my beloved Two Oceans Ultra Marathon (56 km) for the 9th consecutive time is nothing I take for granted. I’m grateful to my stellar physio Iain Sykes. He gave me the confidence after my UTCT injury in December, that I could recover for Two...
by Axel Rittershaus | 12 Mar 2017 | Marathon, Race Review
Two years ago I met two strange guys from the Netherlands at the International Friendship Run of the Two Oceans Marathon. They were all over the place and were swopping T-Shirts they brought with them, donated by other Dutch runners, with us local runners. Little did...
by Axel Rittershaus | 23 Dec 2016 | Race Review, Top, Trail, Ultra Marathon
Welcome to part 2 of my UTCT 2016 Ultra Trail Cape Town 100 km race report. You can find part number 1 of my UTCT 100 km report here… From Constantia Nek to Llandudno Beach (Aid Station #4, 37.5 km) I was looking forward to a rather downhill part of the route...
by Axel Rittershaus | 21 Dec 2016 | Race Review, Top, Trail, Ultra Marathon
67 km into my first 100 km trail race I called it quits. 11 hours of running along and across Table Mountain came to an end when I reached Groot Constantia, the official Aid Station Number 7. And I felt relieved. But let’s start at the beginning. What is it all about?...
