Some interesting Comrades stats

Some interesting and some silly stats about this year's Comrades marathon.

• The most common surname is Naidoo.
• 71 runners will be celebrating birthdays on race day
• 6,884 runners are running the race for the first time
• International entries have increased from approx 600 to 1162. The organisers reckon this is because of the World Cup.
• The most popular brand of running shoe on race day is Asics
• 34 runners are running their 30th or more Comrades.
• This year an additional 11,000 runners will be taking on the race.
• Due to the increase in numbers, the number of water sachets available along the route have increased from 1,000,000 to 1,900,000.
• In the 2009 run, about 25% of the starters did not make the 12 hour cut-off