Tag: Comrades Marathon

Today at the KPMG Wanooka offices in Parktown, Pierre Jacobs, head of KPMG South Africa Marketing, announced the biggest coup in the KPMG Running Club's short history as Caroline Wostmann was presented →

Over the years my relationship with the Unogwaja Challenge has become a focal point of All Things Jabu and although I have chosen to not travel with the team in 2016 due to time constraints, I am still →

It has now been a month since the 2014 Unogwaja Challenge came to a beautiful conclusion. Following the completion a lot of us were back at work the following day starting a challenge of catching up on →

In your wanderings in life you will encounter many stories. These stories will embody the human essence of overcoming the near impossible in the face of difficulty. There will be stories of survival, revival →

So the Unogwaja Challenge of 2014 is getting closer and the team have already raised an incredible R 270 000 towards the Amabeadibeadi charities. With Unogwaja 2014 being just 69 days away, bikes are getting →

The Comrades Marathon is known as the greatest ultra-marathon in the world. It is a marathon is about conquering not only the physical aspect of the race, but also the emotional and mental side of the →

"At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable and then inevitable" Over the past few weeks, while many of us were sitting behind a desk, a group of incredible individuals were taking on a journey →

When I was growing up in South Africa and my sport obsession was blossoming, one day specifically stood out in my memory each and every year. On the 16 June (Until 2007) every year I would wake up →

As the days pass by and many of us are sitting in an office for the fourth consecutive day, a group of cyclists are on their 8th consecutive day of cycling from Cape Town to Pietermaritzburg. When →

The Story of the Unogwaja Challenge is one of the greatest triumphs of the human spirit. Phil Masterton-Smith (Pictured below), ran the Comrades Marathon in 1930 at the tender age of 18 and he finished →

One of the outstanding things about the Unogwaja Challenge is not just the feat that the 12 riders conclude, but its the work that the each member of the support crew do. From someone like Danielle →

In 2011 after suffering a great personal loss, I came across the story of Red Sock Friday which you can read elsewhere on the blog. It was in this discovery that I started wearing red socks on every →

You may previously have read that I am involved in the Unogwaja Challenge this year, no I am not taking part myself, but I am a member of the support crew and have helped the team build up some extra →

SOURCE - www.unogwajachallenge.com  To buy tickets click here: This is your chance to be one of 150 people to ride from Cape Town to Franschoek in a journey of the heart. In doing so you →

As you may have seen on All Things Jabu, we now have a page dedicated to the Unogwaja Challenge 2013. The reason for this is that I was so impressed and inspired by the story of the Unogwaja that I →