After this morning’s run, there’s no doubt I’ll always be a runner Fabulous run. Not for recovery from the 2013 Comrades, nor for something like Comrades, as all the runs before 2 June were: committed, thought-through, after-analysed, all trying to...
The race-pic of me walking Polly Shorrts in long shadows was a bit of a nasty surprise. Legs, body, arms look strong with enough thrust. But my face shows strain. Much more drain than I was feeling. Thought 1: Maybe I shouldn’t have been as confident as I was...
I know now why I wanted to run this not-too-but-long enough ultra- marathon. I know to exactly why. Running helps me get the most out of life. The Comrades Marathon, all that it is, gets me the most out of running. Simple. Marvellous ...
Long enough ago … I ran 11 Comrades, one after the other, got sick, got better and a medal a couple years later then stopped for too many years. So this is a kind of second time around and definitely starting over. My record for Comrades Two – two Vic...
Un-timed 5km time-trial after a 2 km warm-up. The point being to stay up against the effort (effort = 2 steps per breath) of a run from which I can quickly recover . In the old days I would have run 10 km but these younger days, well, I’m older. As maybe it...
