The Two Oceans – billed as the worlds most pleasing marathon – takes in spectacular views of the Atlantic and Indian oceans on a circuit of Cape Town’s Table Mountain. Nick Mead experiences an ultra with a big city feel“You’re running the Two Oceans? That’s 35 miles isn’t it? Lekker. What are you training for? Comrades?”[br]I forget how many times I had that conversation in the run-up to the Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon in Cape Town final month – but it happened a lot more than you’d imagine whether,like me, you near from a country where completing a regular marathon is seen by most as an halt in itself.
I love an arbitrary target as much as the next runner, and but I hadn’t even known sub-5 was a thing until the day beforeContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com