by Axel Rittershaus | 22 May 2014 | Training Session
11 days to go 🙂 until Comrades 2014. I recovered very well from the 32 km run 3 days ago. This morning was very rainy, cool, not pleasant to run. Anyway, after a good gym session I headed out for an easy 11 km run. In two days time I plan an intervall session, before...
by Axel Rittershaus | 18 May 2014 | Training Session
According to my own recovery plan, I wanted to do a 32 km run today as a last long run before Comrades on June 1st 2014. Everything went really well. I ran on an ondulating route, to get more used to hills again and the shin did not cause any trouble. After 25 km or...
by Axel Rittershaus | 17 May 2014 | Training Session
I wrote two days ago that I’ll have a 2 day break followed by a 32 km run. Well, I did not want to wait for two days and swaped the morning walk with the dog with a short trail run. Just 6 km, not very difficult, not very fast. For tomorrow I’ll stick to...
by Axel Rittershaus | 15 May 2014 | Training Session
Another step forward, crossing the 20 km mark 🙂 I went out for a 20 km run today and all is in order. No more doubts at all if the injury is cured or not. It is! I’ll take two days off now and go for an easy 32 km run on the third day. That’s for my mind...
by Axel Rittershaus | 13 May 2014 | Training Session
I’m very happy for two reasons. Firstly because the running is going really good. After an early morning gym session I did another 15 km run and felt really good. Next steps will be a 25 km and a 30 – 32 km run. Secondly because my “Run 4...
by Axel Rittershaus | 10 May 2014 | Training Session
It’s three weeks to go until Comrades 2014 on June 1st. Today I went back again on tar road and increased the milage. I wanted to go 12 – 14 km, and ended running 15 km. It felt really good, I was still running slow and tried to reduce the impact on my...