Unaware of the clock: How lack of a split time cost Glenrose Xaba the SA 10k record

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Despite winning the wet Gqeberha Spar Women's 10km Challenge in 31:17, South African distance star Glenrose Xaba expressed disappointment after her strategy of running purely by feel left her unaware that she was just five seconds short of matching her own national record.

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