Tag: Marathon
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Reaching my limits
I must be getting to my limits. I’m not sleeping right. I go to sleep early to get a proper sleep and wake, after 4 hours feeling awful but unable to sleep again Nor am I eating right. I pick at food, eat junk and less healthy food because its easier and don’t make sure…
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Number Stories
What stories do the log-book numbers tell? Distance 77 km in the Two Oceans week, 33 easy the next, then 56 and 65 km building to 80+ km longest week. It’s not a lot by the hero runner standards by it is more than the minimum and just a tiny bit less than what I…
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Rest day
Don’t know if I like rest days. Part of me says “Run … just a bit”. Most of me restlessly rests. I get up at the same time as running days anyway. Sleep just isn’t a comfort thing. Or more accurately, my comforts don’t need to sleep – but that’s another story. The real me…
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5 miles-8 km
Good miles or junk miles? Sure there was a time when I wouldn’t run less than 12 km at a time. That’s a memory I can’t do now. The thing is, these 5 mile runs in the morning are working for me. They are short enough to recover from before the next run. They are also…
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Mind matters
As I go out now to get more miles in my legs, my mind turns to the Big Day. The good thing is that the agony comes later in the run. I’ll start happy. Let the hanging-in creep up, take over the closer to the end the better. After Polly Shorrts is okay. Please!
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1935 Comrades Marathon humour
“As one would expect in an atmosphere charge with common suffering and endeavour, there is a lot of spontaneous, unconscious humour of the type that the written record cannot adequately capture. One pictures the exhausted 1935 athlete lying on the roadside on Alverstone Hill with his legs stretched up the bank for greater relief.” …
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Two Oceans Marathon 2013 – after the run
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, during the run and after; the count down, squash up of bodies in…
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That medal
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 medal box lingering in the…
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Four days before the long run
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 first 40. It just the last part that’s hard.…
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Carbo-loading practice
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 I’ve learned is that it’s no good just sitting or lying around…