Laura queues to collect her information packet at The Comrades
Laura shows us her Comrades t-shirt.
Laura and Michael purchase Comrades gear.
Laura makes enquiries about the Kalahari Augrabies.
Laura and Bill before the Comrades route map at the Comrades Expo
Photo courtesy of Laura Bushnell.
Michael and Laura in front of the Comrades Expo at the Durban Exhibition Centre
Photo courtesy of Laura Bushnell.
Laura at the Comrades Expo (1)
Photo courtesy of Laura Bushnell.
Laura models her smock.
Laura in uniform for the 2016 Comrades, ready to run
Photo courtesy of Laura Bushnell.
Laura queues for her bus to Pietermaritzburg.
She's wearing her "throw away" overclothes, clothes that she leaves for charity by the road as the day's temperature warms up. Photo courtesy of Michael Thompson.
Michael and Laura walk from the hotel to the bus for Pietermaritzburg.
Photo courtesy of Laura Bushnell.
Laura queues for her bus for Pietermaritzburg.
Photo courtesy of Michael Thompson.
Bill on Shongweni Road, near Old Main Road, in Hillcrest, roughly half-way on the Comrades course.
A group of runners aiming to finish in under 9 hours passes by.
Michael and Bill (at right) wait to see Laura pass.
A steady stream of runners passes by, some in fancy dress.
Bill waits and watches.
A sub-11 hour group passes by.
Michael and Laura chat briefly while they move down the course.
Laura at the half-way point
Photo courtesy of Michael Thompson.
Michael and Laura at the half-way point
Laura presses on and is quickly lost in the crowd.
Some early finishers run on the closed half of the N3 in Durban.
Laura (in purple) finishes The Comrades.
Photo courtesy of Michael Thompson.
Laura nears the finish line.
Photo courtesy of Michael Thompson.
Laura after the finish stretches out a cramping right leg.
Laura at the finish.
Finish line "recovery" area, Comrades Ultra-Marathon 2016, inside the Sahara Stadium Kingsmead
Laura is finished.
Happy to be done, but feeling a little ill. Photo courtesy of Michael Thompson.
Laura irresistably heaves.
But, nothing issues forth as her stomach is empty.
Michael and Laura walk to the hotel from Kingsmead Stadium.
Sahara Stadium Kingsmead after The Comrades
Photo courtesy of Michael Thompson.
Laura poses before the Comrades posters.
Photo courtesy of Laura Bushnell.
