Runner's World Magazine

The new Radisson in JoBurg rocks! It’s a new hotel in Sandton and is home to the uniquely appointed indoor running track – 10 floors up!

“I received a very red pair of these new active sports sunglasses to test and as soon as I put them on they seemed to help me click into action mode – you know, made me feel ready for my run.”

“I have lost touch with what it is like to be one of those guys whose only idea of running is to run a bath at the end of the day.”

“I noticed that on the third day, with the first two stages under his belt, Hedgie won the third stage by 3 seconds. Surely he did not push for a sprint finish which would have been pretty hard core.”

Today’s moonwalkers would probably replace their boots with Nike’s funky Lunartrainers.

“The group that joined me for the run were all in pain. They were not ready for the different type of running that the beach demands.”

“I then went through the unprecedented methodical and high tech process of bagging my samples and asked whether they could let me know my IQ while they were at it and if I was still allergic to bees.”

“Inevitably you get a guy who trains hard all year coming head to head with another guy who has also put everything into winning just that one big race for the year. The result – fireworks on race day!”

As the gear editor for RW I get to try out some cool stuff, however I was not convinced that jogging perambulators would fall into the category of cool when I got working on the March issue.