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TRAIL RUNNING

Writer's pictureByron Van Gool

Comrades Marathon 2022 with the Murray & Roberts Running Club

Updated: Nov 10, 2022


'We didn’t know if we were ever going to run [the Comrades Marathon] again’

2020

In the height of the Covid-19 Pandemic, the Ultimate Human Race was postponed. For context, something that had not happened since WWII, 75 years ago. But would the race be back on for its centenary celebration next year? Hopes were high.

2021

100 years prior, 38 men stood outside the Pietermaritzburg City Hall to begin what would become one of the foremost ultra marathons in the world - now, 100 years later, in 2021, the starting line once again stood empty.

2022

1177 days since the last Comrades Marathon, over 13,000 hearts beat in unison on the streets of Pietermaritzburg, ready once again to take on the Ultimate Human Race.