Sunday's Comrades Marathon was a good race for the 16 runners from the Soutpansberg "Skillies" Athletics Club. They all managed to finish the race, and some of them did remarkably well, all things considered.
Some old hands, such as Ferreira Nel, who ran his 10th Comrades and thereby earned his green number, knew what they were facing, while others, such as novices Anel Roets and Karla van Zyl, had to find out the hard way what this gruelling race entails.
According to Nel, the ...