🥇 Don't fall into the 'double your mileage' trap ahead of the Comrades marathon, says former champion. Read the story ⬇️
Sam Tshabalala won the 1989 Comrades Marathon on 31 May 1989 in Durban, becoming the first black person to win the race. Picture: Gallo Images / Beeld Archives
Orton ran and duly won the 1972 Comrades. The newspapers reported that he “powered his way up Polly Shortts” and for good measure he smashed the course record held by three time winner, Dave Bagshaw. But Orton proved the adage “Heavy is the Head That Wears the Crown” and he slumped to a fifth place finish. Orton had simply overdone it.Similarly in 1990, Sam Tshabalala responded to the pressure of trying to defend his 1989 Comrades title by massively increasing his training load.
He crushed me by three minutes at the Buffs marathon that year and looked good for a second win in 1991 when a terrible car accident injured him so badly that his chances of ever winning again were ended.
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