Marathon feet: 10,000 runners mark race’s record-breaking silver jubilee

FORTY minutes after the winner strode to victory, the real race began. The race for personal bests, the race against exhaustion, the race against the odds.

Runner after amateur runner ran, limped, staggered and slumped across the finish line.

Some punched the air, some yelped with delight, some smiled in disbelief and others grimaced in agony.