The race is still on for the thousands, as the winners are already through with theirs. More than 12,000 runners from 47 countries participated in the Comrades this year, a rise in participation count of 17% over the previous year. Complete results: results.comrades.comTrack Your runner: Comrades track your runner serviceLive finish line video: Comrades video [...]
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Just 5 days to go for the 84th edition of this ultramarathon, which will be run on a Sunday (unlike past traditions), May 24th. This years run is an 89KM ‘down’ run from Pietermaritzburg to Durban. The cutoff time for the race will be 12:00 hours, which means that the race starts at 5:30 am [...]
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I am dividing my training plan for Comrades 2010 into three parts or phases. Phase 1: Base building phase This will be the first 3 months of my training, May to July, and will mostly be oriented towards bringing regularity to my running, ensuring that I am running 5-6 days a week, that too in [...]
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It was an interesting thought which I got today, to find out about any previous Indian and international participants at Comrades over the last few years. It was not as straightforward to find this data, but with some quick Google searches, I was able to retrieve what I was looking for. Comrades 2000 (biggest one [...]
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My last few weeks and months were spent in learning about ultramarathons, reading stuff over the net, getting some good books to understand what makes a runner go from running marathons to distances beyond that. I deliberated on running the Nov 15th Bangalore ultramarathon, but it really looked difficult to fit in with my other [...]
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