An all-day Family Fun and Sports Festival was held at the Pinelands High School in October 2012, to launch their new Youth Possibility Centre. A Fun Run/Walk had been organised for Saturday morning, with different starting times for the various distances.
On Sunday, 20 November 2011, we joined a record number of 2517 people and 1736 dogs who participated in the SPCA Royal Canin Wiggle Waggle Walkathon in Tokai, Cape Town (Record numbers Wiggle Waggle for SPCA). The impressive sum of R250 000 was raised for the Cape of Good Hope SPCA, which is wonderful news,…
On Sunday morning, hundreds (thousands?) of humans were taken ‘walkies’ by their four-legged best friends, who tugged excitedly at leashes, tails whipping side to side and noses straining to inhale all manner of strange and wonderful scents. The air was filled with a chaotic chorus of yipping and yapping, wroofing and barking, the occasional growl…
This year was the first time that we participated in the annual Cape Town event known as The Big Walk. The first Big Walk was staged in 1903 (history); currently, its main sponsors are the Cape Times and Discovery Health. According to Google, it “is the biggest timed walking event in the world” (it is?),…
After a week of superlative and decidedly non-wintry winter weather in Cape Town, the temperatures dropped and the rain clouds moved across the mountains just in time for the weekend. We had agreed to meet our friend Colette on Sunday morning for another 5 km fun walk, this time around the neighbourhood of Claremont Primary…
After participating in our very first Fun Walk around our own neighbourhood last weekend, it didn’t need much effort from Colette and her Mom to persuade us to join them for the Women’s Day 5km/10km Fun Run/Walk in Bellville, which is one of the northern suburbs of Cape Town. Although Women’s Day is officially on…
“Can you hear that sound outside?” Doef-doef-doef-doef-doef…. Trap-trap-trap-trap-trap…. Excited voices. Breathless voices. An occasional cheer – clap-clap-clappity-clap-clap. “Are those people running down our street? What is going on out there? It’s Sunday morning, and the sun isn’t even up yet!” Ahhh! It’s the Pinelands Athletics Club, which is based at the Lower Oval in St…
This morning we went for a fun walk with a couple of hundred extremely excited dogs and their owners. It was the first ever Woefie Wandel to be held in the northern suburb of Parow, and as far as we could tell, it was a roaring success. The event was the Afrikaans-speaking, northern-suburbs equivalent of…
This morning we joined a couple of thousand people and their dogs for the annual Wiggle Waggle Walkathon, sponsored by Cape Talk and Pet Alive. The walk raises funds for the local Cape of Good Hope SPCA whose HQ is in Grassy Park. The entrance fee for adults was R25 – dogs get in for…
Grains of Sand 