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...
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...
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...
