12 Jun '17: Results Comrades 2017

ATC at Comrades 2017

This was New Balance’s third Comrades as technical sponsor.  As part of the build-up to the event New Balance created the #myfutureself campaign, taking a look at what’s instore on race day, sacrifices made by Comrades entrants, their values, convictions and experience.  New Balance invited runners to write a letter to their future self and tell that person who they want to be and how to prepare for the final 87 Km lap.  Caitlin Wolstenholme (9:38) was one of the runners selected to be an ambassador for the campaign.  We are not sure what Caitlin wrote to herself in that letter but we can tell you that she improved her Comrades time by over an hour from her last up run!

Congratulations to all the ATC’ers who finished the Ultimate Human Race!  All the ATC Running members’ results are further down in this email.  If you ran for another club and is also a members of ATC, please let us know and we will add your result to the on-line results page.  Special congratulations to Bill Rowan medal earners:  Brett Nattrass (08:21), Marié Wessels (08:35), Dominic Boyle (08:45), Nic De Beer (KPMG, 08:48) and Oliver Davies (08:55).

Ashleigh Hansen  (09:02) was already in the finish venue when the Bill Rowan gun went off and narrowly missed this medal.

Miguel Netto (09:08:41) became the first athlete to do the Unogwaja Challenge for three years in a row.  This being Miguel’s 3^rd Comrades he has never travelled to Comrades by any means other than his bicycle.  Piet Viljoen also did the Unogwaja Challenge this year and completed the run in a very respectable 10:23.

You can read more about Miguel’s hat trick in the latest Modern Athlete Magazine. 

Results - ATC Runners at Comrades 2017: