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Comrades Marathon: A reminder to push our limits

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Comrades Marathon: A reminder to push our limits
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Almost every runner who has run the Comrades Marathon will recall that when they first heard people race over 90km, they would have considered them mad.



What, then, do you call a man for whom Comrades would be a mere athletic appetiser?



Such a man is South African trail-running star Ryan Sandes, who has just finished fifth in the Marathon des Sables, which at 270km is three times as far as Comrades and, because it is across the desert, rightly regarded as one of the toughest footraces on t

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