For the runners out there - Bucket List Item

One of the most beautiful but tough ultra marathons is happening while I type this. The 56km Two Oceans Ultra Marathon is run in Cape Town and is celebrating the 48th running this year.

My lady is running so we went to registration on Friday to fetch her number as well as her goody bag. Some of the highlights of the registration and some of the facts of the race follow.

Half Marathon Registration

Our destination – the Ultra

The Two Oceans Ultra and other races at the time generated over R672 MILLION in revenues in Cape Town in 2016

The traditional ‘goody’ bag where sponsors put samples of their products in

Press wall from past races

Some facts about this year’s race from the official Two Oceans web page

11,000: Ultra Marathon runners
16,000: Half Marathon runners
1,000: Trail runners
Over 5,000: Fun runners

A ballot system is used for the half marathon as the route can only accommodate 16000 runners safely. Over 25000 entries were received

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Adidas are the technical sponsors of the race

There is a huge wall where runners can write a message about what makes them run

Massive wall full of thousands of messages

Some more facts from the website

1,000: International Friendship Run participants
Over 25 000: Number of people who entered into the Half Marathon ballot for a place at the start line. The ballot applications process was put in place to deal with the high demand for Half Marathon entries.
86: Countries represented in the 2017 OMTOM
Over 3,000: International entries in 2017
835: Running clubs represented in 2017
85: Age of oldest entrant in this year's race
300: Underprivileged runners residing in the Runners' Village
90,000: Litres of water consumed on Race Day
40,000: Litres of Coke consumed on Race Day
18,000: Litres of Powerade consumed on Race Day
R1,8-million: Total prize money paid out to the top men and women in the Ultra and Half Marathons
R1-million: Prize Bonus from Old Mutual for the athletes that breaks the men's or women's Ultra record

My girl the only one keeping her head

Just hanging about

Below is just a snap I took of the TV coverage of the race

Top left long shot of Chapmans Peak, Top right the second women climbing Chapmans, bottom left are runners of the Ultra on the road, bottom right the finish where the half marathon runners are finishing

Talking of finish… I better get my butt there to meet my girl at the line

Hope you found this interesting. Thanks for reading!!