Comrades Marathon Down Run 2025 Route Description

This is a route description with maps and profiles of the Comrades Marathon Down-Run route for the 2025 event on Sunday 8 June 2025. Knowledge is power!

Bookmarks:
00:00 Intro
02:41 Start - 80km: PMB to Bottom of Polly Shortts
04:57 80 to 70km: Polly Shortts to Umlaas Road
06:17 70 to 60km: Umlaas Road to Cato Ridge
07:04 60 to 50km: Cato Ridge to Inchanga
09:18 50 to 40km: Inchanga to Rob Roy
12:24 40 to 30km: Rob Roy to Gillets
14:27 30 to 20km: Gillets to Pinetown
16:05 20 to 10km: Pinetown to end of Westville
17:05 10 to 0 km: End of Westville to People's Park

Disclaimer: I tried my best to be very accurate but cannot be held responsible if you use this information and then for any reason whatsoever miss out on your Comrades medal.

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The Comrades Marathon is an annual ultramarathon footrace between the towns of Pietermaritzburg and Durban in the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa. Runners need to complete the distance in less than 12 hours to get an official finish. It is the oldest Ultramarathon in the world and each year between 15000 and 25000 runners from all over the world take part. This is the Ultimate Human Race!

Andre
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[deondaniels]

Dankie André. Easily some of the most helpful Comrades content on YouTube at the moment. I enjoy all your content - thank you for sharing your experience so freely. See you on the road

[lorrainetaylor-mawisa]

Congratulations on your finish Andre🎉💪👏
I do hope you're enjoying a good rest now.

[ShawnGreyling]

love it. I am a novice hopeful and here to pick up any and all information I can find.

[braveheart]

Thank you! Needed this! This will be my first Comrades

[katenderobert]

This guy is very helpful. I have found his content very useful as a novice.

[pavlopoluektov]

Andre- much appreciated for your knowledgeable breakdown of the downrun route!

[stuartjgibson]

Thank you André, the information shared is greatly appreciated.

[pie-pacifiquekabalira-uwas]

I drove the route backwards using this video, and I couldn't be more grateful! 🙏🏾 Thank you!

[DamienLane-ic]

I love these videos - it'll be Comrades #7 for me, my fourth down and I've watched your videos countless times over the last coupe of years. Thank you for taking the time to make them.

[hosiahnkoane]

Thank you very much, the video is really assisting in my preparation for my back to back. I keep on going back to the video to visualize my comrade run on the 8th of JUNE 2025.

[jasonsnell]

Baie dankie Oom..this is gold..thank you for sharing your experience and wisdom..looking forward to my 1st!

[ddv]

beautiful, thanks again!! last year helped loads!!

[ashokpawar]

Very interesting and great presentation. I liked the style very much. Thanks much appreciated. Could you please share the excel sheet for each 10 kilometres like you shared in the video of Up run? I am doing Comrades down for the first time.🙏

[ian]

Thanks so much for this Andre, any idea when the confirmed route will be announced?

[gibsonmukarakate]

Thank you.
You talk about keeping warm clothes until the coldest part after Little Pollys. Is it allowed to wear a warm jacket on top of your race bib?

[MikeLetham]

Hi Andre. Thanks so much for your videos! I'm running this year as a novice so they are very helpful. I really liked your pacing chart for last year's Up. Do you have a similar chart you have already made for this year's down? Many thanks again! Mike

[munyaradzidamson]

Thanks so much. Do you have the gpx files for the comrades down run?

[dandear-rl]

Anyone new to the Comrades looking at that profile dont be fooled even on a bicycle its hardly able to tell if there are more downhills than uphills, beware

[UmeshChimanlal]

Hi. Pls advise what the 10km marker in pietermartberg read. Will it say 10km, done or read 80km still to do ?

[aubreypule]

Reality starts kicking in now, we are about run 90km