Cape Town also offers many lovely nature reserves, my favourite, the Cape Point Nature Reserve. Capetonians are renowned for their diligent commitment to their natural environment, which is home to many endemic species, particularly various fynbos flora found nowhere else on earth.
Running and cycling enjoy massive popularity in this city, and it was here that the Two Oceans Ultra Marathon was born in 1970 with just 26 entrants, 16 of whom finished by cut off. Taking the runners across the peninsular from one ocean to the other, it was to become dubbed “The World’s Most Beautiful Marathon” and it’s easy to see why.
That first gruelling 56km event was organised purely as a training run for runners who had set their sights on the very famous Comrades Ultra Marathon, held annually in May and launched 90 years ago in 1921 in honour of those who died in the First World War — a race not for the faint-hearted, at an eye-watering 90km, and every other year, uphill, to boot!
However, Two Oceans was soon to become a massively popular annual event, and remains so to this day, with the field growing every single year. It’s now an enormous event on the global running calendar, luring people from all over the planet, and is run as a well-oiled, efficient machine.
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