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Looking for things to do in April? We’ve selected our best picks of ways to get outside, move or learn something new.
Gauteng
Glacier Cradle Traverse
Date: Thursday, 4 May – Sunday, 7 May
Location: The Cradle, Avianto, and Muldersdrift
This 3-day stage race includes never-before ridden areas in the Cradle of Humankind, Muldersdrift, as well as tracks in adjacent estates and conservancies. Entries include everything from race fees, to accommodation, food, medical back-up and more.
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Wings for Life World Run
Date: Sunday, 7 May
Location: Pretoria
The annual Wings for Life World Run takes places this Sunday in Pretoria. It’ll happen at the same time at various locations worldwide. There’s no finish line, your race stops when the catcher car catches you and all entry fees go towards research for Spinal Cord injuries. Click here for Ryan Sande’s tips for tackling this unique race.
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Fun Fit Class for Mamas
Date: Saturday, 13 May
Location: 27 Boxes, Melville
This fun event is targeted at mothers and includes fitness activities, healthy snacks, massages and tips by health and wellness practitioners. R50 from you ticket goes towards helping a child in need.
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Hiking Trotters: Celebrating Mothers
Date: Saturday, 13 May
Location: Moreleta Kloof Nature Reserve, Moreleta park
This is a 6km hike followed by a breakfast to celebrate mothers. It’s an easy hike but you need to provide your own water and snacks.
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Rooftop Sculpt and Tone with Caralishious
Date: Sunday, 14 May
Location: Jackson’s Real Food Market, Bryanston
This is a fun and energizing Sculpt and Tone class that combines powerful cardio, body conditioning, functional training, yoga and pilates exercises into one synergistic workout. It’s the perfect way to build up strength and stamina while toning your muscles.
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Impi Challenge Day Night Series
Date: Friday, 19 May
Location: Germiston Golf Club
This is part of the new Day Night Series from Impi which consists of a tough 5km obstacle race. There are 6 events in total and you can compete against the leader board to win the series.
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Van Gaalen Trail Run
Date: Saturday, 20 May
Location: Van Gaalen’s, Skeerpoort
The Van Gaalens Trail Run offers plenty of single track and many different landscapes. There’s 4 distances, 35km, 20km, 12km and 6km.
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Suits and Sneakers 5
Date: Thursday, 25 May
Location: Sandton Convention Centre, Sandton
Suits and Sneakers is similar to TED Talks. There will be four speakers on this particular night who present excellent content with an emphasis on masterful storytelling. Each speaker has between 20-30 minutes to share an impactful mentality. The guest speakers are:
Michael Jordaan (former CEO of FNB), Rich Mulholland (founder of Missing Link), Anele Mdoda (94.7fm radio presenter) and IN-Q (National Poetry Slam Champion & multi-platinum winning songwriter from the USA)
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Hollard Jozi JUMA
Date: Sunday, 28 May
Location: Marks Park, Emmarentia
The Hollard JOZI URBAN MTB ADVENTURE has two separate routes in 2017; a 54km & 22km urban ride through the heart of the biggest urban forest in the World, our city Johannesburg. There’s also a 1km kiddies race.
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Western Cape
Zero Waste Home Night
Date: Friday, 5 May
Location: Two Oceans Aquarium
Bea Johnson and her family generate a quart-size jar of waste per year. This talk features Bea’s tips on how to simplify your life by adopting a new approach to consumerism and conscious living. There will also be other local waste-minimisation experts talking.
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Secret Sunrise Work It
Date: Saturday, 6 May
Location: Majik Forest, Western Cape
The first Secret Sunrise of May celebrates workers day.
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Make it Ferment – Culturing Gut Health
Date: Sunday, 7 May
Location: Joshua Tree Organics, Claremont
This is a course in fermentation which includes the basics, apple cider vinegar, sourdough, Kombucha, Kefir, Kimchi, Sauerkraut and effective micro-organisms. It’s a hands-on course and you get cultures to make the above foods.
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Mom and Child(ren) Health and Yoga Retreats
Date: Friday, 12 May
Location: Stanford, Western Cape
This is a 3-day yoga retreat for moms and kids. It’s educational and entertaining. The weekend includes healthy meals, snacks, nature walks, yoga sessions, movies, holistic body treatments, childcare, and relaxation.
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The Slave Route Challenge
Date: Sunday, 14 May
Location: Grand Parade, Cape Town
This event traces the ‘slave route’ and honours those who built Cape Town.
There’s a 21km and 10km route which passes heritage sites like the whipping post where slaves were whipped, the hurling swing pump where slaves had to pump water for their masters, the company bell that rang to call slaves, gallows hill where slaves were executed, the Castle where slaves were imprisoned and tortured and the slave tree plaque where slaves were sold.
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For the love of REAL food – Workshop
Date: Wednesday, 17 May
Location: Vredenberg Estate, Somerset West
This workshop will teach you how to make the following foods from scratch – traditional Sour Dough bread, traditional Bircher Muesli, Lemonade and Raw Chocolate.
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Trail Running Clinic with Edunova
Date: Thursday, 18 May
Location: Somerbosch wine Farm, R44, Western Cape
Two of South Africa’s top trail runners, Landie and Christiaan Greyling will host this trail clinic. They will share all the tricks of the trade on how to tackle the simplest and the most challenging trails. There’s also a practical part of the evening where you will be outside, learning how to tackle certain trails. The evening ends with a dinner and Q&A session
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Jonkershoek Mountain Challenge 2017
Date: Saturday, 20 May
Location: Jonkershoek Nature Reserve, Jonkershoek Road, Stellenbosch
This trail running mountain challenge consists of an 11km, 24km and 38km. It’s a tough but beautiful route.
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FNB CAPE TOWN 12 ONERUN
Date: Sunday, 21 May
Location: Cape Town
The FNB Cape Town 12 ONERUN celebrates everything Cape Town – the vibe, the beautiful city, and the people. It’s a fast-paced 12km that follows the coastline through the Harbour, past key city landmarks, including Cape Town Harbour, Grand Parade and the V&A waterfront, before finishing at the Portside building in the heart of Cape Town.
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Bench2Bench
Date: Saturday, 27 May
Location: Le Sueur Avenue, Constantia
The Bench2Bench is a memorial fun run and walk that began in 2008, in honour and memory of Denis Nixon.
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Change of Season Trail Run
Date: Sunday, 28 May
Location: L’Avenir Estate, on the R44
This is a fast course between the vineyards with great views and beautiful Wineland scenery. The long routes also use the neighbouring farm of Nooitgedacht terrain, so you’ll get some single track in the forest, jeep track through the vineyards and orchards.
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KwaZulu-Natal
Kloof CPF Nite Run / Walk
Date: Friday, 5 May
Location: Kloof Senior Primary School, Durban
This 10km and 5km walk and run is a fundraising imitative for the Kloof Policing Forum.
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Ingeli Sky Marathon
Date: Saturday, 6 May
Location: Ingeli Forest Lodge
The Ingeli Sky Marathon is one of the 9 sanctioned South African SkyRunning Series. It’s a challenging mix of forest single track, climbing mountain paths, dirt jeep track and cut grass paths. The route is designed to pass through the most scenic parts of the area including waterfalls, streams and amazing views. In addition to the 42km run, there’s a 21km, 10km, and 5km trail.
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Forest Hike and Yoga
Date: Sunday, 7 May
Location: Giba Gorge, Pinetown, Durban
A morning hike followed by yoga.
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Dolphin Mile Surf Swim Series #3
Date: Sunday, 7 May
Location: Marine Surf Lifesaving Club, Marine Parade
This is an official Midmar Mile Seeding event, there is also another swim on the 21 May.
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BELL Big 5 Series # 1 – Zini River Estate Buffalo MTB Race
Date: Sunday, 14 May
Location: Mtunzini Country Club
The Zini River Estate Buffalo MTB Race takes place in the small coastal village of Mtunzini providing the perfect weekend getaway for the family. With the race offering a 10km untimed fun ride, 25km and 50km options there really is something for everyone. All of the routes include a loop in the beautiful Zini River Estate which is home to various antelope as well as an abundance of birdlife and offers great views of the Mlalazi Estuary.
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Wild Coast Outride
Date: Saturday, 27 May
Location: Wild Coast Casino, Port Edward
This is not a race, this is an MTB Adventure Outride Loop from Port Edward to Nyameni. This adventure will provide exceptional riding, breath-taking views, awesome single track and good laughs along the route. This 38km ride is a great introduction into riding the Wild Coast.
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Sappi Karkloof Classic Trail Festival
Date: Saturday, 27 May – Sunday, 28 May
Location: Karkloof Country Club, Howick
The Karkloof Classic Trail Festival is one of the most established MTB events in South Africa. Karkloof is the most progressive mountain biking destination in South Africa and now offers those same great trails to runners as well who have the choice of 3 trail and MTB events over the weekend.
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Eastern Cape
Karoo Moon Trail Run
Date: Friday, 5 May – Sunday 7 May
Location: Bucklands Guest Farm – Karoo
The Karoo Moon is a two-day trail run following farm tracks and sheep and kudu footpaths along the Groot River and the Paardenberg Mountain. The first day is a 20km route and the second 12km.
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Pam Golding Belmont Valley Challenge
Date: Sunday, 14 May
Location: The Belmont Golf Club, Grahamstown
The Belmont Valley Mountain Bike Challenge offers 3 mountain bike distances: 15km Adventure, 40km Challenge, and a 60km Race. All routes are guaranteed to include hills, cows, mud, some fences, sand, valley bushveld, a railway line, lots of single track and of course a golf course.
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Mpumalanga
My Spar Forest 2 Falls MTB
Date: Saturday, 6 May
Location: Graskop Town
This MTB offers three distances – 75km, 34km, and a short 15km fun ride. There will also be food stalls and a bike wash available.
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Croc2Croc@Verlorenkloof Stage Race
Date: Friday, 12 May – Sunday, 14 May
Location: Verlorenkloof Estate, District Lydenburg
This 3-day stage race offers three different distances and offers accommodation, food as well as on route support.
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Trail and Trout Stage Race
Date: Friday, 18 May – Sunday, 20 May
Location: start: Ezemvelo Nature Reserve, Bronkhorstspruit, Gauteng – ends in Mpumalanga
This stage race offers 3 days of blissful mountain biking on lovely country roads that will take you to the waving and mystical landscapes of the highlands meander.
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Secret Sunrise African Plains
Date: Saturday, 13 May
Location: Likweti Bushveld Farm Estate, White River
It’s the second edition of Secret Sunrise in Nelspruit.
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North West
Adventure Lisa’s Forest Run
Date: Saturday, 20 May
Location: Old Imperial Inn, Venterskroon
Adventure Lisa’s Forest Run is the highlight of the racing calendar for many trail runners! The Vredefort Dome, where Forest Run is held is a UNESCO World Heritage site. There’s 3 distances – 46km, 30km, and 16km. If you need convincing, read Chris’s race report here
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Limpopo
Sondela Bela Bela Cycle Challenge
Date: Saturday, 20 May – Sunday, 21 May
Location: Sondela Nature Reserve
The Sondela Bela Bela Challenge comprises of both a road race and an MTB event. The Road Challenge will take place on and the MTB Experience on Sunday.
The event will raise funds for some of the local charity organizations in Bela Bela. There will also be Kiddies Rides on Saturday and Sunday as well as entertainment.
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