The Cellars-Hohenort – Relais & Chateaux Hotel Cape Town Welcome to The Cellars-Hohenort – Relais & Chateaux Hotel Cape Town

Situated in the lush Constantia Valley, Cellars Hohenort offers a world-class accommodation and dining experience like no other.

The Greenhouse Restaurant   With Richard Narva of Boston MA The Menu – The Greenhouse Restaurant The Butcher Bird Checking the wines Our…

Hohenort… Easily one of the toughest races on the calendar. It’s a beautiful race, hilly as hell, but beautiful and very well organised and efficiently marshalled… Maybe that’s why we keep going back? Because it can’t be because we love the hills!… But this year was my last.

The reason? Not the hills, because as much as I despise hills, I will sooner or later learn to conquer them (although I…

First of all, confession time… I bailed on the 30km. Before you judge me, know that I’m judging myself. Not because I bailed on the race, it was the right decision, but because it’s a decision I shouldn’t have had to make. I should have been ready, I should have trained properly (or just trained, full stop) but I didn’t, so when I woke up on Sunday and I was stiff from helping the homeless guy…

I’m about to get a 30km kick in the pants…

I’ve had a very lazy festive season. I last ran a race on the 28th of November, it didn’t go well, my feet hurt the whole way through the 10km route because my work shoes had caused rather uncomfortable calluses. So I spent a lot of money buying fancy pedicure gadgets and testing various old wives tales regarding skin softening.  I found that Vicks Vaporub worked really well, but requires that I…