Kazungula Bridge Marathon, Water Under The Bridge

Where water was available, complained one runner, it was like it was straight from a boiling kettle. The shortage of water during the marathon is an irony as Kazungula is a water paradise, with gallons and gallons flowing from the mighty Chobe and Zambezi rivers.

However, marathon runners who converged in the border location were left high and dry. Some took to social media to vent their frustration as it remains a mystery how the organisers failed to tap into the abundant fresh resource. Hosting the Kazungula marathon makes a lot of sense from whichever perspective you look at it from.