The Diverge Podcast explores South Africa's ultra-endurance crazed sporting industry with Seamus Allardice. From the Absa Cape Epic, the Tour de France of mountain biking, to weekend missions in the mountains; and everything in between, including bike packing, trail running and hiking. On or off the beaten track the Diverge Podcast is your guide to long-distance adventures in South Africa.
In August 2020 Jacques Marais, Peter van Kets, Zane Schmahl and Peter Kirk set out on a 9 00km, 9 province, tour of South Africa. The aim was to highl...
The story of the Covid-19 pandemic is still unfolding. A strange podcast for a strange time. Seamus Allardice looks at the effects of the Covid-19 cri...
The 11th season of the Spur School's MTB League saw participation records broken in most regions. Following the highly successful 2019 final, to which...
The Maloti 100 Miler is a mountain bike race between Barkley East and Maclear, in the Eastern Cape. It covers 162km, takes in 2 966m of climbing and a...
On the 13th and 14th of September, Diverge Podcast host, Seamus Allardice took part in the Torpedo SwimRun Wild. New to the sport of SwimRun he had no...
Nicky Giliomee (Seattle Coffee Co) and Jaco Pelser (Southern Africa Roadtrippers) took part in the 2019 Momentum Health Cape Pioneer Trek, presented b...
The route for the 2020 Absa Cape Epic has been announced. It takes in 647 kilometres with 15 550 metres of climbing, over 8 days in March next year. V...
The BMT Fairtree mountain biking academy team of Luyanda Thobigunya and Zola Ngxakeni won an entry to the Swiss Epic, in the south eastern canton of G...
Gravel is growing in South Africa and 6 local event organisers have combined to establish a 7 event gravel/mountain bike 100 Miler Series. The series ...
The South African XCO Championships, at Thaba Trails in Johannesburg, saw Candice Lill win her first senior national title. Alan Hatherley meanwhile w...