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The 2012 Comrades Marathon is done and dusted and if you ran your legs and body aren’t feeling too broken. Although for the South African running calendar the season is over and there are no major runs in the next couple of weeks the show must go on as they say. I wanted to do a quick catch up on what happened on Comrades Race day this year and I touch base with Ian Laxton who is one of the SABC commentators and knows the race backwards to give us a bit of rundown of what happened. I also chatted to Zola Budd about her first Comrades just a couple of days before the race and even though the race is done I thought it was still applicable to play the interview out. Then lastly I catch up with John McInroy who along with four others cycled the 1700km from Cape Town to Pietermaritzburg in the 10 days prior to Comrades and then on the 11th day ran the 89km between Maritzburg and Durban. As discussed on the show here are the videos from their epic journey. Take an hour and watch them to see what amazing things the human spirit is capable of doing: