Building for peak mileage The recovery week after the 56 km long run is over. It made me sleep long on Saturday and Sunday and miss the Monday run. Today I wanted to get out the door and did and felt very strong over ~8 km: run 1 of building to the longest week of my...
Two Oceans 2013 – the experience As always being part of a great event is enriching. Two Oceans has the great South African ultra razzmatazz: big field of runners, screeching loudspeakers, anticipation, seeing old friends – always a treat at the start,...
After the long training run Because I live in Cape Town, the Two Oceans Marathon is my long training run for Comrades. Razzmatazz and a medal for a training run is great. Because the 56 km Two Oceans is on Easter Saturday the date moves around and the gap between Two...
So the long training run for Comrades I’ve been taking this Two Oceans thing quite seriously: tapered, carbo-unloaded (eaten less because I am running less); goodness this morning I jogged just over 1 km down to the gym, gym-cycled 20 min, jogged the 1 click...
That Comrades Marathon Medal Even before my old shoe-box was full of medals for doing runs between 10 to 160 km, they had kind of lost their value. Not the running, the medals. At best I could see myself old, one had holding a rattling teacup, the other hand in the...
Here come the old, not-too-wrinkled vigour boys, well this one anyway; and for ~5 km this morning, anyway too. The first 5 are always easy. It’s just the other 55 to worry about for Saturday’s Two Oceans. Actually the first 20 km and hopefully probably the...
Tapering, carbo-loading practice Got the taper and carbo-loading, such as it is, going for Two Oceans on Saturday. Not so much to perform there, but just practicing for the taper and carbo-loading before Comrades which is still a couple months away. One thing...
Why do ultras? The ultra-ethos: Get yourself strong, start something you might not be able to do. When the going gets tough, go on; when it gets tougher dig deeper; go on until you finish it. Not because you have to, were told or paid to, not because there is a...
My running shoes missed me this morning. Running less to get fresher for the 56k Two Oceans Easter Saturday. Except that I run much more for being out there running than this pop-fizz-bubble in me. Or do I? Either way I missed my running shoes too, the morning stars,...
Two Oceans Marathon Two Ocean’s marathon coming up soon, less than two weeks. The last extra-long run preparing for Comrades. Two Oceans Marathon – 56 km of Cape Town. Some race it. So it’s a challenge even though any distance, even 100 metres can...
