Gerda Steyn has received backing from an unlikely source in her quest to break the Comrades Marathon down run record during the 48th running of the world famous ultra’s Pietermaritzburg to Durban leg.
The South African road running darling who holds the up run record of 5:58:53 will next Sunday attempt to smash the 5:54:43 mark set two years before she was born.
And the woman who ran that incredible time back in 1989 is certain her name will no longer be prefixed with the phrase “Comrades Marathon record holder’ after next Sunday.Frith van der Merwe, having watched in awe as Steyn deposed her as the Two Oceans Marathon record holder last year before she went on to improve that mark this year, says everything points to the lass from Bothaville setting a new mark at the Ultimate Human Race.
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