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...

Training Rain

Comrades training in Cape Town always becomes rainy. Its a challenge to chase weekly mileage after being stuck late at work, running club already closed. But you gotta go. Change in the car, head out into rain and spray whipping off the churning sea, streetlights for...

Camperdown

Camperdown, KZN, early enough on the down Comrades run, in the tough zone of the Up, is named after the farm on which it is built; which was named after one of the Camperdowns in Scotland; which were named for a victory of the British Royal Navy under Admiral Robert...

Bob Lambert – RIP

Bob Lambert – Life Member, Comrades Marathon and Beyond Comrades Marathon country is richly summer-green now. As is my memory of Bob Lambert. I knew him mostly as the father of Robin Lambert with whom I have shared a friendship since the first days of our high...

8 Week assessment

So far so good. Target was to average 45 km per week – just above my minimum Comrades training distance over the key 20 weeks leading up to the big day. Actual is 53.5428etc so far, according to mapmyrun.com distances anyway. And I’m running strong and...