{"id":60151,"date":"2014-05-19T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/60151\/callies-athletes-prepare-for-comrades\/"},"modified":"2014-05-19T12:10:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T10:10:34","slug":"callies-athletes-prepare-for-comrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/05\/19\/callies-athletes-prepare-for-comrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Callies&#8217; athletes prepare for Comrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston Callies Harriers will host a Comrades Marathon Breakfast, at Germiston Lake, on May 25.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the breakfast is to wish the club&#8217;s athletes who are taking part in the Comrades Marathon good luck.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The Comrades is the world&#8217;s oldest and largest ultra-marathon, run over a distance of approximately 90km, between Pietermaritzburg and the coastal city of Durban.<\/p>\n<p>It is scheduled to take place on June 1.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Callies have about 75 entrants in this year&#8217;s Comrades Marathon.<\/p>\n<p>The breakfast is also held annually to motivate and give the athletes tips on how to tackle the marathon.<\/p>\n<p>Comrades&#8217; legend Tommy Malone will be the guest speaker for the day and will, among other things, talk about the race and give the runners advice.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a 15km run before the breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 Comrades T-shirts will be handed out to the athletes, who will also be given important information such as the positions of Callies support stations along the route.<\/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='fb7179b09564f8bc6d5363aada5b659e'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comrades Marathon coming up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":58465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Puleng Sekabate","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[2504,7919,1126,3275,3508,979,2655,3507,1143,2749,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-60151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-athlete","tag-athletes","tag-athletics","tag-comrades-marathon","tag-comrades-marathon-breakfast","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-callies","tag-germiston-callies-harriers","tag-germiston-lake","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["athlete","athletes","athletics","Comrades Marathon","Comrades Marathon Breakfast","germiston","Germiston Callies","Germiston Callies Harriers","Germiston Lake","Puleng Sekabate","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60151","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=60151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}