“The reason we race isn’t so much to beat each other… but to be with each other.”
— Christopher McDougall
A long history
In 1959 a bunch of restless soccer players from Savages Soccer Club in Durban got together and decided to exchange their soccer boots for running shoes to stay fit in the off-season. A year later and a Comrades Marathon wiser they were hooked, and Savages Athletic Club was born.
The four co-founders were Kenny Craig, Joe Knowles, Jock Finlay and Arthur Simpson. In 1960, the year the club was born, the member count was a modest 11.
The numbers steadily grew and within 25 years of starting the club, the membership reached 1 000 and at one stage, Savages was the biggest club in South Africa.