{"id":122312,"date":"2016-05-23T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/122312\/callies-runners-head-to-the-comrades\/"},"modified":"2016-05-24T08:56:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T06:56:35","slug":"callies-runners-head-to-the-comrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2016\/05\/23\/callies-runners-head-to-the-comrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Callies runners head to the Comrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston Callies Harriers athletics club celebrated their runners who will take on the Comrades Marathon, this coming Sunday, with a special breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>The breakfast, on Sunday, was held at the Victoria Lake Club.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_122315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122315\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/05\/IMG_0772_72913.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-122315\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/05\/IMG_0772_72913-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Mac Dougall, chairman of the Germiston Callies Harriers, took a moment to relax before his 27th Comrades.\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2016\/05\/IMG_0772_72913-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2016\/05\/IMG_0772_72913-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2016\/05\/IMG_0772_72913.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-122315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Mac Dougall, chairman of the Germiston Callies Harriers, took a moment to relax before his 27th Comrades.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An impressive 50 male and 14 female runners from the club will head to Pietermaritzburg for the start of the world\u2019s oldest and largest ultra-marathon.<\/p>\n<p>Among them is Callies legend Alan Robb, who will be running his 43rd Comrades.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He will serve as a source of inspiration for Moshaedi Bapela, Rinah Botha, Tiisetso Dibetso, Mariaan Grobler, Gerhard Herbst, Steven Herceg, Bheki Hlatshwayo, Carolina Jacobs, Sebei Maroga, Coen Myburgh, Sibusiso Ndlovu, Sihle Ngubane, Bongithemba Peka, Carolyn Roberts and Deneho Tshabalala, all of whom are running the Comrades for the first time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_122313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122313\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/05\/IMG_0766_34806.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-122313\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/05\/IMG_0766_34806-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"Zwelithini Vaphi from the Germiston Callies Harriers will be taking part in his 16th Comrades. He has received a silver in all his previous runs and hopes to continue with this trend this year.\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2016\/05\/IMG_0766_34806-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2016\/05\/IMG_0766_34806-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2016\/05\/IMG_0766_34806.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-122313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zwelithini Vaphi from the Germiston Callies Harriers will be taking part in his 16th Comrades. He has received a silver in all his previous runs and hopes to continue with this trend this year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Though training for the Comrades is over, runners were encouraged to take part in a fun run from the Germiston Stadium before the breakfast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/122034\/acting-station-commander-wishes-runners-well\/\" target=\"_blank\">Acting station commander wishes runners well<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/120796\/local-club-members-represent-gauteng\/\" target=\"_blank\">Local club members represent Gauteng<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/120655\/first-silver-for-young-fighter\/\" target=\"_blank\">First silver for young fighter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/120118\/club-raises-funds-for-deserving-charities\/\" target=\"_blank\">Club raises funds for deserving charities<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='1cd4a8efd21b6b2a9a6c1b9eb0febe13'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston Callies Harriers host their annual Comrades Breakfast at the Victoria Lake Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":122314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[8297,11107,3275,1012,1003,1106,979,3507,969,2730,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-122312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-community-2","tag-comrades","tag-comrades-marathon","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-callies-harriers","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["community","Comrades","Comrades Marathon","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","Germiston Callies Harriers","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}