Conditions: 15°, partly cloudy Time: 18:40 Back on track.  I restarted the programme last Monday and have been following it all week, even though I haven’t been logging my progress.  It seems much harder this time round, but I think that my pace has been ever so slightly faster.  On Monday I have experienced a [...]

Conditions: 20°, overcast Time: 19:20 Today I cheated: I incorporated my “walk” into a trip to the grocery store. The pace was not as intense as usual and I experienced no pain of any kind. To compensate, the walking part of the trip took 35 minutes, so I think I’ll forgive myself.  Just one more [...]

Conditions: 23°, clear skies, a little windy Time: 18:20 BMI: 32.19 Calve muscles really hurt. Badly. Almost had to stop, but I didn’t. Perhaps the problem was that I started out through the newly discovered park path, which has a solid but gravelly surface.

Conditions: 23°, clear skies Time: 19:10 BMI: 31.83 Nothing much to report.  Calves very tight but, once again, no cramping and no shinsplints. Instead, my legs were crying out to start running. I took a slightly different route today. I hadn’t realized that was a corridor of “parks” that stretches across a large swath of [...]

Conditions: 20°, clear skies Time: 18:50 It should have been Week 1 Day 7, but the important thing is not to quit when you fall behind but to get right back on schedule. Calve muscles were really hurting, almost cramping, but not shinsplints. I have seen people bleeding from shinsplints and it is not the [...]

Oops.  I had to miss today.  I was working through the night and up to my appointment with the physio. After that I worked some more, napped, then off to Bellville for more work-ish kind of stuff, and finally back home at 22:00.  I have moved everything on the schedule one day forward. Marathon target [...]

Conditions: 16°, clear skies Time: 19:20 Too late and too dark.  Calves tight and almost shinsplinty, but not yet. I forgot to mention on Saturday that I felt a little shinsplints at the start. I’m not feeling as tired today as the previous two times, and I rather miss the exhaustion! It will probably come [...]

Conditions: 28°, clear skies Time: 19:00 It feels silly to walk instead of run, but Noakes is adamant that it is important to strengthen your bones and muscles before starting to jog. At least I don’t have to crawl! Everything fine, except that the sunset was pretty boring and not worth taking a picture of.

Conditions: 25°, clear skies Time: 18:30 Well, no problems on day 1! Quite a fast pace at first, a little slower towards the end. Didn’t get very far and I’ll probably need alternatives routes to keep it interesting. Very, very slight shin splints, almost not noticeable. Back feels fine. Was going to take pics, but [...]