Modern Athlete Magazine Issue 77, December 2015 | Page 16

Ma Feature

LIMPING ON
for Now

running again, but it all started 13 years ago when he visited his sister in Plettenberg
Bay and saw people running on the beach, so he decided to try running again.
“I started with fairly long runs on the beach sand, with my walking leg and in my HiTec boots, and when I got back to Queenstown, I started running 12km morning and
evening on the tar. A local runner then suggested I run the Bongola Half Marathon,
and soon 21km was just not enough – I was not really tired by t