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...
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...
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...
I’m still full of Comrades. I got my medal, a couple of pints of drip afterwards and all the goodness that Comrades gives. Plus I had the week after the run in the Durban area winter sun, with my supportive family. Their time after my time. The best thing was...
The journey to the start The journey to the start of Comrades is part of its richness. A pilgrimage, a journey to a place where something special happens so that we too get some of what makes it special. Mine starts tomorrow early, the long drive by car from Cape...
