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2000 AD:
Any walking until now was BC (before Comrades) but then a huge challenge loomed. No - not another long walk. A flipping 90km ultra-marathon running race!
I can't even run.
But we trained (and boy-oh-boy how we trained!)with the wonderful Mavis Hutchison.
In June 2000 Marion and I walked/ran the gruelling
COMRADES MARATHON from Pietermaritzburg to Durban – 87,3km. We didn't finish in time for a medal but boy! what an experience.
Afterwards I said - Yeah - you guessed it!
“NEVER AGAIN!!”
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The famous Mavis Hutchison training her 'GALLOPING' GRANNIES"
for the 2000 Comrades Marathon.
I was ready to hang up my shoes after Comrades. After all, what could top that? Perhaps a run on the Great Wall of China or the Sahara desert challenge? No thank you.
I was ready to join the '21' Club (and do only 21km events).
But .... one never knows what is in store and there were better things (walks) to come!
I had started collecting articles on walks around the world. Wainwright's Coast to Coast, el Camino de Santiago, the Great Wall of China, the
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pilgrimage. All much too FAR for me - but, who knows, maybe one day!!
They say marathons should be done at least 6 weeks apart but in July - just a few weeks after Comrades - I went to Johannesburg with Clare and Brian and we did the Johannesbu
rg Big Walk 42,2km again. Not content with that, I did the Dolphin 50KM Ultra again in August. Clare, Chris and I walked together most of the way and finished in 8 hours - from then on we would be called the Shongololo Shufflers!
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