The comrades is a 56-mile ultra marathon in South Africa. Most years, more than 15,000 people run the race. Race paces runners trying to finish just before the 12-hour cut-off. Shahida: "I just want to make the slower runs like myself believe that the how is irrelevant"
If you live in South Africa, you definitely know someone who runs ultra-marathons, probably lots of someones. Here, ultras are the stuff of a whole country’s new years resolutions and mid-life crises. They’re the kind of thing that a totally ordinary, not-athletic person wakes up one day and decides they’re going to do -- and then does. In one of the most economically unequal countries in the world, extreme distance running is a sport that feels like it includes everybody. And improbably, that inclusiveness happened during one of the darkest, most divided moments in South Africa’s history – during the final years of apartheid.
The Comrades