The wildly cool Torpedo SwimRun took to the roads, trails and icy Atlantic Ocean of Cape Town on Saturday, 18 November. The event boasted three distances; the extreme Ops, the racing Cape, and the introduction to SwimRun Cosy. In the Cape race the mixed category was the day’s focus, with prizes being awarded to the [...]
I did my first Torpedo SwimRun in 2019. It was the Torpedo Wild, which featured an amazing swamble down the Kaaimans River and a mile swim across Island Lake, in Wilderness. Since then, I’ve worked at a few and taking part in a bunch of tours and even a Torpedo Cape race. And, while I [...]
Two of South Africa’s premier triathletes, Annah Watkinson and Matt Trautman, strayed far from their usual road racing roots to take part in the Torpedo SwimRun Cape by OUTsurance, on Sunday. The pair showed their class in the swim and run legs, as well as overcame the unusual elements of navigating kelp beds and rock [...]
Nicholas and Alexandra Quénet set a new course record, in windy conditions, on their way to victory in the 2019 Torpedo SwimRun Cape; on Sunday, 17 November. The siblings, from Worcester, both have triathlon pedigrees and utilised the down-wind swim conditions to blitz the rest of the field. In so doing they became the first [...]
