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27 April 20245 August 2024
by Bruce Fordyce

The late and greatly missed Ian Emery once asked me why I was running very wide of the kerb on a bend near Drummond (halfway) while we were racing the Comrades Marathon.

“Bruce”, he panted, “you’ve been running the tangents so well in this race and yet suddenly you’re running wide. What’s up?”

Ian, by the way was a three-time gold medallist in our great race with a best place 4^th in 1985. He was knocked off his bike one awful morning and killed by a drunk motorist. I can’t believe that that sad day was more than 20 years ago.

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CLOSE THE CHAPTER NOT THE BOOK!

29 December 202329 December 2023
by Bruce Fordyce

My great friend Derick Marcisz never ceases to remind me that his lifetime marathon personal best (p.b.) is exactly one second faster than mine. In March 1983 I ran 2 hours 17 minutes and 18 seconds at the Buffs Marathon in East London. A few months earlier Derick recorded 2 hours 17 minutes and 17 seconds at the old Transvaal Marathon Championships. He has reminded me of that one second for over 40 years.

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THE SPRINGBOK ENIGMA

20 November 202321 November 2023
by Bruce Fordyce

Photo – planetrugby.com

Perhaps the most astonishing revelation of the glorious and superhuman Springbok rugby world cup triumph a couple of weeks ago was that they were able to win three massive, and exhausting games in a row. (Albeit each by one agonising point.)

Eben Etzebeth is purported to have said “Why win by two points or more? It will look like we tried too hard.”

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EXPLORE AS MUCH OF THE COMRADES ROUTE AS YOU…

CLOSE THE CHAPTER NOT THE BOOK!

THE SPRINGBOK ENIGMA