However there are still a few places left on our planet that are unspoiled and pure, these places you need to fight for your survival and make use of your primal instincts just to survive. Last weekend, the mountain ridge in the eastern cape where the annual 100km Salomon Skyrun took place was my escape to reality.
Running to me also represents something wild and primal, it is something that makes us human, we are born to run but the city and modern lifestyle got in the way of it for most of us.
SKYRUN is a HARDCORE race is many ways: weather, terrain, remoteness and altitude. But the energy you get from the mountain makes anything the rest of the year possible.
Running on the Dragons Back is always allot of fun for me, and i always try and run as much as possible on this narrow ridge, because it is such a thrill and feeling of freedom.
The night was long and freezing cold and i had to keep on moving in order to stay alive.
Skyrun, the longest and purest day of the year....
