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...
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...
Streets we run through, as we train every day. Our life we run through too. And life. The wheel-chair homeless person with a vote is back in his shelter after it took so long to rebuild and renew. Fine on a warm summer morning. no so fine in our wet...
Comrades Marathon riches The stories of the people of Comrades make Comrades as rich as it is. One of them is story of the youngest finisher. The Templeton’s, father and 16 year-old son L.H, entered and ran the second Comrades, 1922. Father gave up. The boy...
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...
