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Welcome mordo!!! It is nice to run with people on the longer runs but for me there is a balance between running too long and the recovery period needed afterwards. Like BI says, only you know your own body...
I was looking for a way to post a video so it showed a picture of the first frame and played when you clicked on it in the above post. But none of the variations I tried worked an ultimately the one hour edit window expired with zero result.
Anyway, I think I have stumbled upon this year's promotional video
Fancy it Bike IT? Or indeed anyone? More detail here - have I calculated the salary correctly? £64k per annum? Nice!
I saw the Comrades guys at the Soweto Expo this morning. They will consolidate the manual entries by 10th December. Honesstly I'm not sure it will get there by that time. They offered to check there and then and then I explained my entry is still stuck in the post office.
No running for me since Sunday's birthday run. My calf is almost healed, but has caused a hip issue
Good luck Snaily and Bikey on your qualifiers today!
i run best doing 3 or 4 runs a week and no more
i have never used a training plan and usually go as I feel
They tell me the Comrades Plans are great although I have never followed them myself, at the top of that page you will see Coach Parry mentioned, he is extremely good and knowledgeable; some of us have signed up to personal remote coaching from him on the past too. He does regular podcasts that are really worth the time taken to listen to, you will learn a massive amount from him and there are Q&A sessions on every call.
I do my own ad-hoc training, but I am on oldish hand at marathon running now and I know what it takes to get me through these distances.
I bailed out.
Bike It - well done!
Southern Snail: sympathies.
We went on a nice trail run this morning from Dorking along the Greensand Way to Leith Hill - really enjoyed it.
Here is your shocked trainer and crowd at your decision to bail Snail. But you did the right thing, no point in risking damage if you are not in shape for a long haul
I scraped sub 4 at NY today. Back in the UK at Christmas so will see if I can up the seeding at Portsmouth
Mordo, if you look here https://www.ultraladies.com/free-training-plans.html there is a 50mile/100k training plan - I used it for my first 50-miler and it worked well. You could chop out one of the shorter midweek runs to make it 4 days a week. One thing I've learned is there is no single 'best' way to train for a given race - people and their lives vary too much.
Welcome, Mordo. I've always used the training plans on the Comrades website.
Well done on sub 4 Matt.
A good result JK, even if it didn't go quite to plan.
I ran 26.2 miles this weekend to fulfil the conditions of a Strava challenge. This was to earn a place in next year's New York Marathon, so I'll be headed there next year. After having had to walk the whole thing in 2017 I'm hoping for better luck.