Yesterday we did a post , an 87km haul from Durban in Pietermaritzburg. And while the elite men and women will garner most of the media attention and focus on race day, they represent only a very tiny, perhaps “insignificant” part of what the Comrades is really all about. So I thought that today, I’d […]
Marathons
Comrades Marathon 2008
If it’s mid-June, then it must be Comrades! Our overseas readers may not be familiar with Comrades concept (and lifestyle, for many SA runners), so I thought it would be interesting to give a brief run-down of the race, and then look at some of the “behind the scenes” aspects of what goes into running […]
Boston Marathon 2008 result and splits
Robert Cheruiyot fulfilled most people’s predictions today, by winning the 112th Boston Marathon. But it was not so much the fact that he won as the manner in which he did it that was remarkable. He absolutely destroyed the field through his own front-running efforts, taking up the pace very early on in the race, […]
Marathon survival: Courage and physiology
Marathon survivorship Last week, we featured the . As the fastest Japanese woman ever over the HALF MARATHON, much was expected of Fukushi’s debut marathon in Osaka, but in the end, she left the world with memories of a different kind – 15 minutes to cover the final 2km, three falls in the final 300m […]
Amazing marathon video
Kayoko Fukushi’s debut In our most recent post, we looked at some really interesting stories from the indoor athletics and tennis worlds. But here’s one that I felt should be added to this, and it includes a video which I found through the Let’s Run website (great source of news). The story, and the video, […]
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