A Vic Clapham -Tribute Image posted by Jon Clapham on Facebook ComradesMarathon 2013-03-15
Streets we run through, as we train every day. Our life we run through too. And life. The wheel-chair homeless person with a vote is back in his shelter after it took so long to rebuild and renew. Fine on a warm summer morning. no so fine in our wet...
Comrades Marathon riches The stories of the people of Comrades make Comrades as rich as it is. One of them is story of the youngest finisher. The Templeton’s, father and 16 year-old son L.H, entered and ran the second Comrades, 1922. Father gave up. The boy...
The logic of running: Running strength grows only if enough recovery and adaptation is allowed between runs. I know I should rest tomorrow. I know too I won’t. Gotta feel I’m working and not indulging as I might easily do.
Recovery Running In the logic of endurance running recovery runs help recover from harder runs. It’s also there in the recovery runs and the times that we don’t run, that we adapt to the worker and so get stronger. I glad that now here in March with the...
Comrades training in Cape Town always becomes rainy. Its a challenge to chase weekly mileage after being stuck late at work, running club already closed. But you gotta go. Change in the car, head out into rain and spray whipping off the churning sea, streetlights for...
Camperdown, KZN, early enough on the down Comrades run, in the tough zone of the Up, is named after the farm on which it is built; which was named after one of the Camperdowns in Scotland; which were named for a victory of the British Royal Navy under Admiral Robert...
I like the way running regular routes makes them richer, makes me feel part of them; how other the buildings, roads, street lights, weeds, people use the same space; how we share what we are, what we do, where we do...
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...
