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...
Surviving Comrades training, getting to the start line uninjured, fresh, without others’ ‘flus and colds is a challenge. Surviving the road on the day and getting a medal is another. Yet Comrades always asks more. It pokes your ribs saying, “So you can...
“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...
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,...
After the long training run Because I live in Cape Town, the Two Oceans Marathon is my long training run for Comrades. Razzmatazz and a medal for a training run is great. Because the 56 km Two Oceans is on Easter Saturday the date moves around and the gap between Two...
