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...
So far so good. Target was to average 45 km per week – just above my minimum Comrades training distance over the key 20 weeks leading up to the big day. Actual is 53.5428etc so far, according to mapmyrun.com distances anyway. And I’m running strong and...
Comrades inspired me as a 10 year-old, through my teens and twenties. That inspiration eventually got me running enough to run Comrades. Getting to my first Expo, my first start line, grinning at the first medal was enough. Until I recovered. Then it became whole lot...
The 16 year-old in me wants to run Comrades again. The 40 year-old know-it-all-with-a-silver medal starts, “Well if you want to do …” The ageless me, the one I want to know better, hugs them both. “Go to your memories”, he gently steers...
As always my thesis: behind the numbers and the facts is the rich stories of the Comrades. Facts sourced from Morris Alexander’s The Comrades Story Father and Son What was the dinner-table discussion that led to the Templeton father and son running the 2nd...
