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…
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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"
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Did you know that the humble bicycle is celebrated all over the world each year on April 19th? This may not be such big news to the thousands of South African cyclists who buzz around the Cape each year at the annual Cycle Tour, or the hundreds more who take a trip through the Boland at the Cape Epic, or the sani2c riders who bomb down from the mountain to the ocean every year. However,…
"Apr 2021: The psychedelic history of Bicycling Day"
The past weekend saw a slew of major events taking place all round the country with FinishTime returning to action alongside some of the country’s top sportsmen and women in a variety of sporting codes. Starting the action-packed weekend was a new event for FinishTime, the MyLife Dusi Canoe Marathon on Thursday, Friday and Saturday in KZN, while our timekeepers were also ensuring competitors at the SA Triathlon Championships in the Free State and SA…
"Mar 2021: We’ve restarted with a bang"