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...
Building for peak mileage The recovery week after the 56 km long run is over. It made me sleep long on Saturday and Sunday and miss the Monday run. Today I wanted to get out the door and did and felt very strong over ~8 km: run 1 of building to the longest week of my...
So the long training run for Comrades I’ve been taking this Two Oceans thing quite seriously: tapered, carbo-unloaded (eaten less because I am running less); goodness this morning I jogged just over 1 km down to the gym, gym-cycled 20 min, jogged the 1 click...
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...
