Category: Training the Mind

  • 2013 – a last 10km

      A last 10 km run 8 days before the run, on the Table Mountain road above the city centre. A good easy send off with a deeply etched memory. Except that I probably spent as much time taking pics, bathing in the marvel and sharing it with mountain bikes who were equally enthralled.   So…

  • Engaging your mind 3: Toughness

    An exercise to get your mind right for the Comrades Marathon Accept that its going to get tough out there. It is going to get tough. Accept that. Facing up to and going through the effort is what ultra-running and Comrades is about. Unless you run way behind what you could be doing, it’s unlikely…

  • Engaging your mind 2: Fear

    Another exercise to get your mind right for the Comrades Marathon Write down the things that worry you. List them. Externalise them. Get them out of you. That way they don’t gnaw at, give you sleepless nights, undermine you. Then take time to understand them. Fears are not a sign of a moral failing, or…

  • Engaging your mind

    An exercise to get your mind right for the Comrades Marathon Visualisation – making it concrete Get a profile or map of the route. You can look at a the small one on the the official Comrades website http://www.comrades.com/Route/Route-Map.aspx or a more detailed one at mapmyrun.com  at http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/2640629.  You also can rely on your memory if you’ve run it…

  • Fear

    You can call it Fear. It’s more. It’s the real you, the you that has to do the hard miles, asking the ego-you that one that likes to talk and dream and take chances: Are you doing the right things now? Do you have the right run-day plan? Can you handle a hilly 87 km…