{"id":878,"date":"2013-05-13T07:20:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T07:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/?p=878"},"modified":"2015-10-11T06:26:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T04:26:23","slug":"notes-from-1946","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/2013\/05\/13\/notes-from-1946\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from 1946"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notes from 1946<\/p>\n<p>For 6 years through the World War II years, the Comrades Marathon wasn&#8217;t run. In 1946 it started again with a field of 22 of which 8 finished.<\/p>\n<p>Winner in a time of \u00a07:02:40 was Bill Cochrane, who had also won the 1935 run. Morris Alexander in his book <i>The Comrades Story<\/i> notes the irony as ex-prisoner-of-war Cochrane ran past the Oribi camp in Pietermaritzburg \u201cstill crammed with hundreds of Italian prisoners\u201d many of whom watched through the barbed-wire fence.<\/p>\n<p>At the back of the field \u201cbalding 59-year-old Edgar Marie hobbled on to the track, and around the final circuit, to pass the finishing post with only 2 seconds to spare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cut-off was 11 hours then. So Edgar Marie could be me me this year finishing in the same time but with 1 hour and 2 sec to spare, except I&#8217;m not yet balding and I&#8217;ll try not to hobble.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes from 1946 For 6 years through the World War II years, the Comrades Marathon wasn&#8217;t run. In 1946 it started again with a field of 22 of which 8 finished. Winner in a time of \u00a07:02:40 was Bill Cochrane, who had also won the 1935 run. Morris Alexander in his book The Comrades Story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[145,1,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-getting-the-most-out-of-training","category-articles","category-comrades-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}