I registered on the first day of Novice registrations at Comrades Marathon 2010, i.e. Nov 1st, and later got the shock of my life on learning that registrations closed on Nov 2nd as all 5,000 novice places were taken within 27 hours! Taking it a little easy, and I would have blown my chances. Earlier [...]
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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: 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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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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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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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 [...]
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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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The most interesting finisher stats 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. Gold Wally Hayward Silver Bill Rowan Bronze Vic Clapham DNS DNF A 18 11 453 393 108 21 77 74 B 2 84 694 324 [...]
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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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