KRAC Blog

This month's Runner's World has a piece on an event I don't believe I have ever heard of, the Comrades Marathon in South Africa. For starters, it's 55 miles long, so technically it's an ultra, but it attracts a field in the neighborhood of 1,200 or so. In even years it is run up hill, and in odd years they run the course in the opposite direction, down hill. International runners get blue numbers. Runners starting their tenth Comrades get a yellow number, and thereafter you get a green number that is yours for life. You have to finish in 12 hours, but we all have a qualifying time-- you have to have completed a marathon in under five hours.

Can't say I've ever wanted to do an ultra. The point is lost on me, but the article made it sound intriguing, and it would be interesting to go to South Africa....