Well not too serious. More like focusing a little more Last year (2010) this time: recovering from a seriously twisted ankle. Gingerly running maybe 7 km a day, 3 and if I could, 4 times a week. I had my focus and inspiration: in deference to getting older, I wanted...
Training for Comrades requires a program that includes a good running schedule. Without one to guide and push a little, it’s all too easy to do too little running training and overdo the running being done. Not all schedules are good in that they demand too...
Training programs published on the web, in books and magazines have at least one fundamental flaw. Most have more. The same applies to running “gurus” one might encounter from time to time. Some will help many will hinder your training. But you still need...
Essentials of Comrades Training Run. Get outdoors and run. Often. As many times a week as possible. Also stretch, do sit-ups, press-ups or more sophisticated versions of these exercises plus quad-strengthening exercises. Get a training program. Let it guide the...
More extracts from Running Logic© a book not yet written on, well, the Logic of Running. Running Logic 101 You can’t do what you can’t do. You can’t do better than your best. If you’re dehydrated, you’re dehydrated If your sugar levels (your energy supplies) are low,...
Running logic: you can’t do what you didn’t do. No matter a long day went past the bed time story – Michael and I are re-telling Star Wars 10 – with a glass of wine, while rain came ever harder. A serious runner would’ve slept to the alarm after 500...
Training Axioms 1. Without running, without putting enough miles in the legs, you won’t get strong enough to do Comrades. 2. There are ways running that make you stronger, there are ways of running that make you weaker, then there are way of running that add minimum...
Excerpts from The Logic of Running©, a work about,well, the logic of running. Summary Training for Comrades is simple really. You need to run. Training takes place outdoors, well out of bedroom-, office-, pub- and other-distraction-doors, preferably on tar,...
Running has a logic that is simple rational and gets you where you want to go. It is possible to apply a rational logic to what can appear to be an irrational activity. The logic of running doesn’t require irrationality because the activity of ultra-running can...
Ultra-training is mysterious. Books, magazines, websites, gurus at the running club who have been to the Oracles Beyond 42.2 km, Beyond 50 miles, 100 miles or To Infinity might have programs or training ideas. None are wrong. All are mysterious. Training programs...
