Madness of running a beloved’s age in KMs

ORDINARILY I should have run 72km. That’s what we crazy social runners do to celebrate a loved one’s birthday. We run the said beloved’s age in kilometres.

Now 72km is long. And so it was that on my mother’s birthday that yesterday, I chose to run a half marathon at the Makoro Village Marathon in Ga-Molepo just outside Polokwane.