Conquering the Comrades Marathon

Around 18,000 athletes will be competing at the Comrades Marathon, the world's largest and oldest ultra-marathon race, which is taking place in KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday, 2 June 2013.

Conquering Your Fears

"This is it," I tell myself. "It's now or never." Standing in my fluffy socks, now adorned with ankle harnesses, and wrapped up in a bright red straight jacket, with red and orange tinted sunglasses to complete the look, I hesitantly shuffle forward until my toes curl over the edge of the platform. 

Mother's Day 2013

For nine months of chilling inside of your mom, to all the years she has taken care of the family, the animals and making sure that everyone stays on the right path all year long, Sunday, 12 May is the day to show your appreciation for everything she has done for you over the years. 

But what can one do for Mother's Day on Sunday 12 May? First, breakfast in bed followed by a small gift would be a great start! But what else is there to do once she is up and about? If you are still stuck for ideas, here are some suggestions:

My Design Work

So I have just loaded a lot of my design work onto Pinterest, to check out my work, go to this link http://pinterest.com/sarahkobal/

Critical Mass in Johannesburg

On Good Friday, 29 March 2013, an unofficial and unsupported group bike ride took place in Johannesburg city centre at night time to raise awareness about the viability of bicycles as a form of transport which is known as Critical Mass. Although this movement occurs to raise awareness every last Friday of each month in Johannesburg, this month, the idea of the event was to ride against rape whereby donations were collected for various rape crisis centres such as the Jess Foord Foundation Handbag Project.

Looking beyond Earth Hour

At 8:30pm to 9:30pm local time on Saturday, 23 March 2013, millions of people around the world will unite for the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Earth Hour. The planet will go dark for an hour as many people will switch off their lights as a symbolic gesture to show their commitment to doing something positive for the planet.

Warrior Race #2 - It's all in the Teamwork

Grey, ominous clouds quickly gathered above us, the wind picked up and it started to drizzle. I began to shiver and started jumping up and down in an attempt to keep my muscles warm for this strenuous race that I was about to encounter. As I smeared red paint across my face and arms, to create a warrior look, I heard the announcement that I had been waiting for over the PA system, "Warrior Rookies batch number four will take off in five minutes."