Category Archives: UNOFFICIAL HISTORY
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BILL PAYN ACCORDING TO BILL PAYN
Leave a commentApril 15, 2021 by DAVE JACK
It’s Wednesday the 24th of May 1922, the day of the second Comrades Marathon, this time an Up Run from …
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BEATEN BY A WAR AND A PANDEMIC
1May 15, 2020 by DAVE JACK
Only two things have beaten Comrades since it started in 1921. A war and a pandemic. World War ll saw …
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VERY SPECIAL COMRADES FEATS
Leave a commentNovember 4, 2019 by DAVE JACK
If you can run and finish the Comrades Marathon within the time limit it’s always been regarded as a feat …
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MY 60 YEARS AT COMRADES
2July 30, 2015 by DAVE JACK
Now that the dust has settled on the 90th Comrades Marathon in 2015, I thought it might be a good …
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ARTHUR NEWTON’S MISSING COMRADES CLOCK :
4May 13, 2015 by DAVE JACK
I spoke in my previous chapter about one of the big things that happened to me whilst on the Comrades …
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NOEL BURREE – 2nd IN COMRADES & WITHOUT A DRINK FROM START TO FINISH :
2May 6, 2015 by DAVE JACK
In 1979 I was voted onto the Comrades organising committee and it’s one of my regrets that I was …
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COMRADES REFRESHMENT STATIONS ARE BORN. :
3May 1, 2015 by DAVE JACK
This is not the story of the Comrades Marathon. It’s not the story of the guts and the glory of …
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1975 AND COMRADES CHANGES :
Leave a commentApril 14, 2015 by DAVE JACK
The 50th Comrades was run in 1975 and still known as “The Golden Jubilee” and a huge amount of fanfare …
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