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...
by Axel Rittershaus | 7 Aug 2014 | Training Session
It was a good week runningwise. 4 sessions, including an easy trail run, and a longer run of 26 km. The joke of the week was the conversation with friends regarding my bench accident on the 27th of July, when she said “so, you really set a benchmark” 🙂 The...
by Axel Rittershaus | 2 Aug 2014 | Training Session
I took a 5 day running leave after my meeting with a bench last Sunday 🙂 It recovery period went well, it seems there was no real damage at all. Lucky me. 3 days after the accident I went on a indoor cycle for 45 min without much load and it went great. On Saturday I...
by Axel Rittershaus | 25 Jul 2014 | Training Session
This posts covers 3 sessions this week. My mid term plan is to work on my speed. This worked well with two session this week, 10 and 11 km long which both were ran at a 5 min/km speed. The second one included some 200 m of elevation up and down. So I was happy with...
by Axel Rittershaus | 17 Jul 2014 | Training Session
I’m going to take it a bit easy for a while, folks. I don’t have any big events planned for the next few months, and I’m pretty busy as well. For a while I might only be posting weekly updates regarding my training, until the next phase of race...
