by Axel Rittershaus | 19 Oct 2014 | Training Session
After yesterday’s 30 km training run I was curious to see if I’d have to pay a price for that today. Today I did a long and for me my most important training run, preparing for the 3 Peaks Challenge, happening in 2 weeks time, going up and down two of...
by Axel Rittershaus | 17 Oct 2014 | Training Session
Tomorrow a group of AAC runners is going to go up Devil’s Peak and I’ll be one of them. I’m happy to be able to learn the route again and run with some running legends, including the 2 time female winner of the Three Peaks Challenge, Caroline...
by Axel Rittershaus | 16 Oct 2014 | Training Session
After my first Devil’s Peak attempt on Saturday I took 2 days off. And on the third day I felt my quads… Tuesday I did a lovely easy trail run together with my wife and our dog along pipe track, while on Wednesday I ran some 13 km after my gym session...
by Axel Rittershaus | 11 Oct 2014 | Training Session
One of the fundaentals of running the “3 Peaks Challenge” is know how to get to the peaks 🙂 I am grateful that running club mate and trail running expert Simon agreed to guide me up Devil’s Peak on a training run. This is the only one of the 3 peaks...
by Axel Rittershaus | 9 Oct 2014 | Training Session
I confess I have been very lazy in terms of posting on my blog. Please accept my apologies. I don’t come up with explanations or excuses 🙂 Let me tell you, I had a busy and good time, in terms of life, business and running. During August and September I was able...
by Axel Rittershaus | 24 Aug 2014 | Training Session
This was a good running week with a race on Sunday. The picture was taken on my trail run early in the morning. 2 days after full moon I started running in the clouds and after a few minutes I was above them. Magic! This weeks sessions: 7,7 km / 4.8 mi; 48 min –...
by Axel Rittershaus | 24 Aug 2014 | Race Review
Instead of doing a long weekend run on my own, I joined a couple of club mates for a very hilly, early Sunday morning 30 km race. At 4:40 am in the morning we already had 22°C. An extremely warm winter weekend in Cape Town 🙂 Luckily the race starts and ends in...
by Axel Rittershaus | 24 Aug 2014 | Training Session
A very nice, relaxing Sunday morning run together with dog Amy. After yesterdays long stunning trail run this was the perfect start into a Sunday. Followed by a lekker breakfast, looking at the beach. What else do you need? Distance 11 km / 6.8 mi Time 1h 06 min...
by Axel Rittershaus | 16 Aug 2014 | Training Session
The weather forecast was promising. So we arranged a trail run together with our friends Julia & Andrew along the slopes of Table Mountain. My wife, our dog Amy and I started from home to add another some 5 km to this trail run. It turned out to be the longest...
by Axel Rittershaus | 11 Aug 2014 | Training Session
For the last few years my main shoe brand is Adidas and their Adistar Salvation. About 2 years ago they introduced their new “Boost”-range. At the same time they stopped selling the Salvation shoes. I wore Salvation because they support the foot, and I...
