Live Comrades Blogging
1 hour 47 minutes into the race, I’m lying here on my couch, enjoying the race so far.
If you want to track a runner, do the following:
- Go to www.comrades.com
- Click on Results
- If you don’t know the runner’s race number, simply search for it
- Click Runner Tracker, and enter the runner’s number
You should see the times. If you click, “Track the above runners using our graphical map by clicking here” you will see a map, with the position of the runner. It’s quite clever really.
Stay tuned for updates.
9:25 am
With 27 km to go, Leonid Shvetsov leads the mens race and is looking strong. If he holds his current pace, he is set to smash the record. They estimate his time to be 5:15, while the record is 5:25, held by Bruce Fordyce. The woman’s race is dominated by the Russian twins, Elena and Olesya Nurgalieva, and are completely dominating the race. The first 5 woman are all Russian.
I’ve just heard that Clive Crawley didn’t start the race, which is unfortunate. I’ll update with the reason as soon as I know.
10:12 am
15km to go, Shvetsov is looking amazing. You can’t believe he’s run over 75km, striding at a pace that’s likely to annihilate the record. Bruce Fordyce is out on the route, running his 25th Comrades, I wonder if he knows his record is likely to be broken?
10:50 am
Leonid Shvetsov has won Comrades 2007 and smashed the down run record by 4 minutes. His winning time of 5:20:48 has broken a 21 year old record. Possibly one of the greatest ultra distance runs of all time!
