Tuesday, 13 March 2012

Where are we now?













The training programme I'm following starts every new month with the question "where are we now?" This is then followed by some reassuring paragraphs about how the novices sticking to this prograame are well on track to completing their first ever Comrades.  Of course this feeling that it's possible really only lasts as long as I'm reading the words of someone who has 19 Comrades medals under his belt.  After that, the answer to the question where are we now, changes dramatically.  So where am I now? Well, its 24 days til Two Oceans 56km and I'm only 82 days away from the ultimate human race. So to sum up...I'm freaking out! I've done two standard marathons in the past two months, one of which I completed in under 4 hours, getting me the seeding groups I wanted for both ultra marathons, my weekly mileage is getting closer to 100km every week, I'm eating more than I've ever eaten in my life, I'm popping vitamins and immune boosters every morning and I can't make it through my evening run without an afternoon nap! So do I feel ready...not even close! I thought by now I would feel somewhat ready for Two Oceans at least! There's not much more I can do though.  It's almost time to taper before my first ultra marathon so if I'm not ready now, I don't think I ever will be! Someone said to me the other day that no one is ever ready for Comrades.  You just do the mileage, put in the time on the road and hope for a good race day.  Lets hope that works!

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