Swart Donkey

I sat on the other side of the pond watching Comrades on an app this year. Two sub-stories felt very real to me. Kerstin and Simone have...

I always focussed on time management with exams . A mentor once taught me a technique. Most of our exams were 100 marks in three hours. I ...

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. There seems to be a clear path. We can remember the things we got wrong, and wonder how it would have been ...

I have a problem with authority . One of the reasons I stopped working in the traditional sense is that I struggle with the hierarchy of w...

Just 12km from the Pietermaritzburg City Hall, many of the children from Umsilinga Primary School had not seen it. It was a very specia...

Phil Masterton-Smith Youngest ever winner of the Comrades at age 19 Friday. I am putting on my Red Socks and going to meet the Unogw...

Unogwaja and The Red Love Train coming together from all over the world You have 12 hours to finish the 89km Comrades Marathon. I wou...

One of the primary aims of the Comrades Marathon is to " celebrate mankind's spirit over adversity ". Well being isn't th...

I was a little worried about my next two months of travelling. Historically, I have not been very good at maintaining exercise habits when ...

We run along parallel to many sources of joy, meaning and fulfilment if we define ourselves to narrowly . If we aren't able to overco...

When you are at school, you change so much each year that you never believe you can't do anything. Maybe next year. Maybe when I am a l...

Most of us are busy. We choose to focus on something and get on with it . We fill in the gaps with a feeling that all the things we aren...

I am not a runner . My family and I have a history of lower back issues. We have all dealt with it in our own ways, but I have been told th...