Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Ultrarunning History
Episode: 84: Wally Hayward (1908-2006) - South African Legend
Description: By Andy Milroy
You can read, listen, or watch
An audio podcast episode has been added to this article.
Early conditioning can be very important. Wally Hayward came from a very tough background. His father, Wallace George Hayward, the son of a coal agent, had been born in Peckham in London, England in 1880, and emigrated to South Africa sometime between 1901 and 1906, in his early twenties. It looks probable he actually arrived soon after 1904 when the sand bar which had restricted Durban Harbour to bigger ships was dredged and deepened. This allowed the weekly Union Castle passenger ships from Southampton to...