Tag: recovery

  • Quiet time

    July is the a quiet running time for an ultimate Comrades runner. So I if I get out to run now it’s mostly for the joy of running, to maintain the aerobic capacity I built and to get my legs muscles to recover, deeply properly and bouncingly. I am also working on a solution to…

  • After Comrades

    Family down with coughs and sneezes. I fight off the creepy-crawlies, don’t run much because of the rain. It’s okay. I’m enjoying the Comrades recovery. I like walking around in my everyday world, with the fingers and ankles still tingling and sparkling with the got-the-medal fizz. How much poorer my life would be without it.

  • Recovery running

    Recovery Running In the logic of endurance running recovery runs help recover from harder runs. It’s also there in the recovery runs and the times that we don’t run, that we adapt to the worker and so get stronger. I glad that now here in March with the run less than 3 months away that…

  • An ordinary recovery day

    Just a little at best recovery workout today. Ran down to the gym, all 1.147 km on sore legs. Mainly so I could check my weight. Great. Starting to get under 88 kg. Hopped on a gym bike for 16 min to get my heart-rate up, my blood pumping without more muscle damage. Back up…

  • A running week

    Friday cold wind howling, rest day Saturday, just feel tired, cold wind howling, wimp the run Sunday, still tired, cold wind howling, not normally a running day Monday, I understand that my recovery from Comrades is not yet complete, though my legs are getting perky. Wind cold still howling. Tuesday, no wind and a perfect…

  • Recovery blues

    The only problem about recovering from Comrades; from a big near 12-hour challenge, also from monnths of training almost as hard as I can. I can’t run. Otherwise its great. Lazy easy runs, time to enjoy them. Feeling strength return. Run-health fizzing through me. Good memories on my pillow, medal under it. Why not? But…

  • Recovery, recovering

    The medal still warm in my pocket, my mind turns to next year’s run. Still another 4 weeks of recovery running before I start my secret plan improve my time: 1 min because its a down run, further sure but easier in a way and it ends at sea level, Toll Gate hill just isn’t…

  • Recovery Re-discovery

    Jogged this weird-warm winter morning; a shirtless ode to summer Eyes filled with stars. Legs a little stiff. Saturday’s morning’s 13 k: Too much fast, too much fun. No training burden, you see. Just running playfully.   

  • Co-incidence

    Moon high, Venus bright in a clear sky, city still; mountain quiet under its cloud; silence of a crisp morning before the first bird. Three joys of winter. Focus: car backs from garage at me padding the middle road, bright headlights rush at us. Three beings at the same place and time. Eyes brighten, breathing…