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Comrades Marathon 2010: 99 Days to Go

February 19, 2010

Time flies! It was not that long ago that I was writing about 300 days to go, and thinking of what training plans to choose for the biggest event yet of my short running career (or hobby, or passion). And now, Comrades Marathon, is right here, right now. I have qualified, I am training, and [...]

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Comrades Marathon 2010: Registration begin

September 1, 2009

Today is that historic day when registrations for the 85th Comrades Marathon, the world’s largest ultramarathon, begin. The race will happen on May 30th, 2010, and 20,000 runners are expected to run over the countless hills between the cities of Pietermaritzburg and Durban in South Africa that day, all of them running the historic route [...]

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Comrades Marathon 2010: 300 days to go!

August 6, 2009

Comrades Marathon: Worlds largest ultramarathon, and 89 kilometers of joy!
Well actually, its only 297 days to go, but hey, I was just 3 days late in writing this post, and 300 looks cool in the title, so why not . Anyway, the fact is that the time is running out fast. It was not [...]

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Facebook group of Indian runners for Comrades 2010

July 13, 2009

Few days back, I launched a small initiative (actually, the idea is from my running friend, Aditya) to connect with Indian runners (or runners from India) who might be interested to run the Comrades Marathon on May 30th, 2010. The Comrades Marathon is the world’s oldest and largest ultramarathon run over a distance of approximately [...]

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Comrades 2010 Training: June 2009, a month to forget

July 7, 2009

Well, the title of this post says it all. June was a not a great training month by any means. It started off well with me sticking to the scheduled targets till the middle of the month, and then, well, it was all downhill from there. I had this discomforting feeling in my lower back [...]

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Comrades 2010: Official training plan published

July 1, 2009

Right on cue, the official training plan from Coach Lindsey Parry was published on the Comrades website. Following training plans are available

Sub-9 hours
Sub-11 hours
Finishers plan

The training plans start July 1st! Thats right, officially, training for Comrades 2010 has begun, today (though the first run happens tomorrow). At this point, I intend to go ahead with [...]

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Comrades 2010: Official announcement

June 19, 2009

Below is the official announcement of the 2010 Comrades marathon (an 89 KM ultra, and the world’s biggest ultramarathon, between Peitermaritzburg and Durban in South Africa) from the latest Comrades newsletter. I am already looking forward to pressing the buttons for registration on my PC on Nov 1st, actually the day on which I will [...]

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Comrades marathon 2009: Finisher stats

June 9, 2009

The most interesting stat from Comrades marathon, 2009 (picked up from Comrades forums). This displays the medals people received versus the actual seeding/group with which they started the race. The box in green below looks most attractive to me for the best chance to do a bronze. That is the D seeding (sub 4 hour [...]

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Comrades 2010 Training: May 2009

June 4, 2009

This was my first month of training for Comrades 2010. I am following Hal Higdon’s Intermediate Spring training program. The target monthly mileage for the month was 151 KM, and mileage achieved was 119 KM. So, I was short by about 20% in this first month. The schedule called for 6 days of running a [...]

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Comrades marathon 2009 results: Muzhingi wins

May 24, 2009

The race is still on for the thousands, as the winners are already through with theirs. More than 12,000 runners from 47 countries participated in the Comrades this year, a rise in participation count of 17% over the previous year.

Complete results: results.comrades.comTrack Your runner: Comrades track your runner serviceLive finish line video: Comrades video streaming [...]

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