Running her 8th Comrades
The crowd support throughout the race as well as the cheers and shouts of encouragement boosted her confidence
Bathokozile Gwala ran the Ultimate Human race – the Comrades this year making this her 8th run. Bathokozile ran this years up run in a time of 10 hours and 41mins and achieved a bronze medal for her run.
This year she was the only female runner sporting the colours of Emnabithi Striders and is pleased that she ran the race in a relatively good time.
The start of the race panned out as planned for Bathokozile and also throughout the race. The Kloof uphill is where the challenge really started and it stayed like that for the rest of the race says Bathokozile.
The crowd support throughout the race as well as the cheers and shouts of encouragement boosted her confidence and facilitated her to continue to push harder to finish the race.
She is looking forward to next year’s race and is optimistic she will complete it in a better time than this year.
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