Vic Clapham Vic Clapham, founder so long ago of the Comrades Marathon, got us to generate human spirit as we entered the long training months and then took on the run itself. Sometimes, maybe because so many complete it, so many ordinary looking people, Comrades seems...
Bob Lambert – Life Member, Comrades Marathon and Beyond Comrades Marathon country is richly summer-green now. As is my memory of Bob Lambert. I knew him mostly as the father of Robin Lambert with whom I have shared a friendship since the first days of our high...
The spirit that makes Comrades unique started early. Arthur Newton When Arthur Newton won his second race, the third running of the event in 1923, he refused the first prize. The Comrades spirit expressed itself there, in its earliest years. His generous view was that...
To understand something its good to know where it comes from The body, roughly stitched from pubis to throat, lay naked in the Oshakati morgue. Our job was to put him, his boots and bloody clothes in a used coffin, screw down the lid and take him to his flight home. A...
