Surrender hill 2014

Surrender hill 2014 took place on saturday 1 March and was quite well attended by Harrismith marathon club.
George Tshabalala once again showed his class by winning the 42.2 in an excellent time of 2h28m.
The next runner in was Bambie de Wet in a time of 3h29m, the first female veteran, with Five Molokoane right on her heels.
His time was 3h32m.
Michelle Botes and her mother, Edca finished only minutes apart.
Their times were 4h14m and 4h23 minutes respectively
The 21.1km event was even better attended with a total of 7 HMK runners.
Abram Mofokeng was the first across the line in a time of 1h33m.
Unfortunately his time could have been a lot better, but due to the club organising the event not having crew at the halfway mark on time, several runners ran quite a ways past before realising something was amiss.
Petro Mathyssen was next, and also the first woman overall, in a time of 1h43m.
The next runners, in order, were Johannes Mahlasela (1h52m), Leon Pieterse (1h57m), Paul Riekert (1h59m), Zelda Oosthuizen (2h03m) and Jill Marshall (2h22m).
Last, but not least, Johannes Serero competed in the 10km event and finished in a time of 45minutes.
Congratulations to everyone.

Unfortunately I can't help but say that there was a bit of a dark cloud hanging over this event.
Call me a chauvinist for speaking my mind if you want to, but atleast one of the referees seemed to have been right in the redzone of her post menstrual cycle, disqualifying Edca van Zuydam for wearing earphones during the race and honestly being quite a bitch about it.
Not a single warning was ever issued.
Later on she again bordered on outright bitch with a member of the BHM marathon club organising members.
Her husbnd probably forgot to stock up on romany creams in time.
Furthermore the current state of the economy and therefor the loss of a lot of sponsors has pretty much fucked everyone over.
Entry fees have pretty much doubled and because ASA is basically forcing clubs to drop the open class in preference for a senior division you are pretty much fucked if you are over 35.
Thanks to the economical problems mentioned earlier your only hope of getting any prize money is being first overall, but if the open division was to be swopped around for a senior division then that would basically mean no hope of a cent if you are over 35.
Today not even the overall winners got a penny.
No, a shirt and a pat on the back, that's it.
"Thanks for paying the extravagant entry fee, dumbass! Come back next year. We'll be here to swindle you some more!"