{"id":607,"date":"2011-10-20T05:01:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T05:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/?p=607"},"modified":"2015-10-11T06:27:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T04:27:32","slug":"comrades-2012-base-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/2011\/10\/20\/comrades-2012-base-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Comrades 2012- Base training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking lots about running and drinking &#8211; the hydration kind not really the beer kind.<\/p>\n<p>Hydration on a long run like Comrades \u00a0&#8211; which for most goes on for well over 7 hours is, as we all know, very important.<\/p>\n<p>So my thoughts on that soon.<\/p>\n<p>The effort of the these weeks is accumulating. Even recovery runs are hard and I have to recover from the recovery run.<\/p>\n<p>But its okay. Fresh orange juice, muesli, \u00a0home-made health bread help. So does sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to last year its all looking good: \u00a0Weekly totals between 46 and 50 km are better than last year; running pace easily 30 sec per km faster and still sustainable. I&#8217;ll get a rest soon and a 42.2 km marathon before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Its good when running is sustainable and allows me to ramp up distance from time to time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking lots about running and drinking &#8211; the hydration kind not really the beer kind. Hydration on a long run like Comrades \u00a0&#8211; which for most goes on for well over 7 hours is, as we all know, very important. So my thoughts on that soon. The effort of the these weeks is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[139,174,173,41],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-comrades-2012","tag-hydration","tag-juice","tag-orange","tag-training","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}