FinishTime Newsletter NEWSLETTER: January 2025 Goodbye 2024 … let's be even better in 2025 December is upon us and what a year 2024 has been. The end of the year is always a time to reflect on the past 12 months, when we also tend to make promises (that we inevitably don’t keep) about what we are going to do, or not do, over the next 12 months, but for now, let's look back at 2024…
"Goodbye 2024"Category: Newsletters
FinishTime Newsletter NEWSLETTER: December 2024 SA Road Running Loses Iconic Figure On Wednesday, November 20, the running community awakened to the sad news that Colleen McNally, an iconic figure in the athletics community, had passed away after a long battle with cancer. A school teacher by profession, McNally was not a runner herself, but became an integral part of the running community as an experienced and highly-regarded race referee. According to The Citizen, McNally was…
"Road Running Loses An Iconic Figure"
FinishTime Newsletter NEWSLETTER: November 2024 Don't be left behind this summer No one can deny that spring has definitely sprung and summer is on its way. Summer in South Africa comes with much more than just beautiful, hot weather. There is also Christmas, New Year and long summer holidays to look forward to. Most people are energised in spring to start training hard as they want to get their bodies "beach ready", shed a few…
"Don’t be left behind this summer"
FinishTime Newsletter NEWSLETTER: October 2024 Is Boston qualifying time too tough? So you thought you were good qualifying for Comrades or Two Oceans with a 3-hour, 45-minute marathon time. Well, just to shatter your illusions of grandeur, not only would you not qualify for the 2025 Boston Marathon if you were a male under 35, but you would be 45 minutes off the pace. Yes, you read that right, you need to run a sub-3…
"Is Boston qualifying too tough?"
FinishTime Newsletter NEWSLETTER: July 2024 Sitius, Altius, Fortius – Communiter "Citius, Altius, Fortius – Communiter", or for us less intellectual jocks who have never understood Latin, "Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together". Yes, it is that time every four years when we sit glued to our screens for just over two weeks and watch the best of the best compete in 32 different sporting codes at the world's biggest sporting jamboree. The 2024 Olympics in Paris…
"Faster, Higher, Stronger in Paris"
FinishTime Newsletter NEWSLETTER: July 2024 Swim away the cobwebs with a bracing ocean swim Anybody taking an early morning dip on the Atlantic Seaboard in midwinter would normally attract questions about their sanity. However, on the first Sunday of every month, swimmers in the 36ONE Openwater Swim Series brave the icy-cold Atlantic in both summer and winter to take part in this popular event. According to the 36ONE Swim Series website, the story behind the…
"Swim away the cobwebs with a bracing swim"
FinishTime Newsletter NEWSLETTER: April / May 2024 Don’t let the chilly weather stop you As the thermometer drops, we are now just a few weeks away from one of South Africa’s most famous endurance sporting events and the winter sporting season is ramping up. It is hard to miss the arrival of Comrades Fever as runners all over the country pound the pavements and roads, desperately trying to prepare for their 85,91km date on June 9.…
"Apr/May ’24: Don’t let the cold stop you"
FinishTime Newsletter NEWSLETTER: March / April Paris beats 60-hour cutoff First of all, an apology … Regular readers of this esteemed newsletter will probably already know about the Barkley Marathon. The editorial team at FinishTime is a bit fixated on the American off-road ultra marathon, but we were determined this year to ignore the event after faithfully reporting on it for three years in a row – after all, we do try and give the…
"Mar/Apr 2024: Paris beats 60-hour cutoff"
FinishTime, in conjunction with the Comrades Centenary Association, is offering two subscribers to the FinishTime newsletter a free entry to the Comrades Centenary Hope Challenge. Anybody who has subscribed to the FinishTime newsletter before June 7th, 2021, will be included in the lucky draw for one of two free entries. To subscribe, just click on this link and complete the form and you will receive a monthly newsletters detailing events, news and happenings of interest to participation…
"Win a free entry to the Comrades Centenary Hope Challenge"