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Fordyce feels Comrades is an important part of SA's history─── 16:45 Tue, 26 May 2015
Running legend, Bruce Fordyce feels that the reward of completing the Comrades Marathon far outweighs the prestige of breaking records at the event.
This year will see the 90th running of the iconic ultra-marathon, with Fordyce having completed over a third of the past races.
The field will see just under 23 000 runners tackling the 87.72 km up-run from Durban to Pietermartizburg on Sunday.
The 59-year-old Fordyce who has won the event on nine occasions, of which eight were consecutive, told OFM Sport that the race itself is much bigger than breaking its records.
The Hong Kong-born legend added that the race is a celebration of the human spirit and has a lot of bearing on South Africa’s history.
Fordyce held both the up- and down-run records before Russia’s Leonid Shvetsov broke them in 2007 and 2008.
Morgan Piek / OFM News
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