Where legends are born
presented by Raidlight South Africa
The Addo Elephant Trail Run (presented by Raidlight South Africa) is held in the third-largest* national park in South Africa, the 1,640 km Addo Elephant National Park. The popular race became the first triple ultra-distance trail running event in South Africa. (An ultra is any run over 42km.) Addo offers a 44km, 76km and 100 miler (160km). The 100 miler was first run in 2005, making it the country’s oldest. It fell away for a few years, but was revived with a totally new and challenging course in 2016.
*The two largest are Kruger National Park (19,485 km2) and Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (38,000 km2, although only one quarter of that is in South Africa, the rest is in Botswana).
VASBYT 100
By Sandra le Roux
I did not know René Vollgraaff before the race, but I did recognise her name on the list of athletes. When I saw a woman on the startline wearing a Kalahari Augrabies Extreme Marathon (KAEM) Buff, I knew it must be her. We soon introduced ourselves and got chatting about friends from KAEM. She had done KAEM twice and I’ve done it once. Although we’d run in different years, we had met a lot of the same crowd.
