The 22nd annual Swim Across Nerja will be held on Sunday, August 5, at Burriana beach. Categories are divided up into age groups from juniors to senior citizens with different swimming lengths for each age group. Registration for the event will take place on the beach at 9:00 am with the first race at 11:00 am for children who …
Feria race winners
Cristóbal Ortigosa and Esther Hidalgo, both from the Nerja Athletics Club, were the overall victors in the Carrera Feria de Nerja 2014 “Trofeo Juan Carlos Salcedo” on Sunday.
Good turnout for annual beach race
Almost 300 people completed the annual Half League race on Burriana beach at the weekend. One league equals 5.556 kilometres.
95 kilometre race through the valley
Over 350 athletes have registered to take part in the First Grand Tour of the Genal Valley, a 95 kilometre race over three days which will take in all fifteen municipalities of the Serrania de Ronda.
Back to the carrier pigeon?
The idea started when a worker at Unlimited IT in Durban, South Africa, complained about the speed of data transmission on ADSL broadband, commenting that it would be faster by carrier pigeon. Enter Winston, an eleven month old pigeon. Armed with a 4 gigabyte memory stick, Winston took on South Africa’s biggest web firm, Telkom. The race had strict rules, …