START LIKE A COWARD, FINISH LIKE A HERO
How to tackle the down Comrades marathon, particularly for novices.
No one sleeps well the night before the Comrades marathon. And tonight, Saturday night the 27th August will be no exception, as thousands of Comrades runners try counting sheep while their nerves are jangling, and the butterflies in their stomach are more like angry swarms of bees. It won’t help that they will be sleeping in strange beds, with different pillows, while being continually disturbed by runners in the neighbouring rooms who keep flushing the loo and switching their lights on and off as they prepare their running gear for race morning.