Your Cape Town Marathon Starts Here

Africa's World Marathon Major. Cape Town Marathon is one of the fastest, most beautiful road marathons — and a course built for a personal best. Get personalized running & strength coaching and in person race day support made for you by Coach Rebecca.

Held each May beneath Table Mountain, the Cape Town Marathon is one of the continent's premier road races — flat, fast, and famous for its scenery. It's a course that rewards smart pacing and consistent training, which makes it a favourite for runners chasing a first marathon, a new personal best, or a Boston-qualifying time.But a great course only takes you so far. Whether you're travelling in for the weekend or building your whole season around it, how you train in the months beforehand is what decides how those final kilometres feel. That's where coaching comes in.

Coaching Built Around You

I'm Rebecca — a running and strength coach who works one-to-one with athletes to prepare for exactly this kind of race.

When you train with me, you get personalized coaching and human support built around your life and your goals, not a generic plan off the shelf: weekly adjustments as your fitness grows, strength work to keep you healthy, a pacing strategy for Cape Town's course, and unlimited access to me by text and email whenever a question comes up.

Everything runs through a premium TrainingPeaks account, so your plan is always in your pocket.

It starts with a free video consultation — a relaxed conversation about your goals, your history, and how we'd approach Cape Town together. No pressure, no commitment, just a plan for what's possible.

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Meet Coach Rebecca

Hi — I’m Coach Rebecca. If you’re reading this, there’s a decent chance you’re a person who fits training around a job, deadlines, and family. You want to run well. You’d also like to sleep, hold down a career, and not fall apart doing it. That’s the athlete I coach. It’s also, for a long stretch of my life, the athlete I wasn’t. I grew up in the water Before I was a runner, I was a swimmer. The kind who knows what a 5 a.m. pool deck smells like in January. I swam competitively through my whole childhood and

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