Zimbabwean man makes history at comrades marathon
A Zimbabwean man, Stephen Muzhingi (33) has won the 2009 Comrades marathon, becoming the first Zimbabwean ever to do so.
Muzhingi finished the gruelling race in a time of 5h23:26, the second-fastest recorded time in the 84 years of the marathon and three minutes short of the record, set last year by Leonid Shvetsov or Russia.
10 minutes later the defending champion went past the finish line in second place.
The 89km marathon started at 0530hrs this morning.
There were loud cheers as Muzhingi came to the end of the race, with some people screaming “Go Africa!” in apparent reference to the Russion domination of the marathon in recent years.
I am proud of you Muzh! Way to go!
It’s all coming back to me now
Usually when I endeavour to recall my early life in its entirety, I find that it is not possible. It’s like ascending a hill to survey the prospect before me on a day of heavy cloud and shadow and seeing at a distance, now here, now there, some feature in the landscape, a hill or some wood or tower or spire, touched and made conspicous by a transitory sunbeam while all else remains in obscurity. The scenes, people and events I am able by an effort to call up do not present themselves in order, there is no order, no sequence or regular progression - nothing , in fact but isolated spots or patches, brightly illuminated and vividly seen, in the midst of a wide shrouded mental landscape.
It is easy to fall into the delusion that few things thus distinctly remembered and visualised are precisely those which made a mark in my life, and on that account were saved by memory while all the rest has been permanently blotted out. That is indeed how our memory serves and fools us, for at some period of a person’s life, when in a rare state of mind, some scenes, people and events maybe revealed to us by a miracle that nothing is blotted out. Read more
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