The origins can be traced back to 1998 when Anthony Holmes, Theo Fourie and Jan Badenhorst, all then members of the Empangeni athletic club, decided they needed more long distance runs in the week as ...

The route of the dinner dance was discovered more by chance than by design. In the early eighties a small group of under trained and somewhat ill disciplined Comrades aspirants comprising Dave Legge, ...

The Redinger dam later flooded the grid and today athletes have to run over the dam wall resulting in a longer, Mafutas hill. (+- 2 km) The Umhlathuze athletic club runs the Mafutas training run a cou...

The run actually began because I always run alone and early in the morning and also because my focus is more on trail running, multi sport and adventure running (AR), than on road running.