Doom & Gloom

A forum post sent to me about training;

 

In terms of training for the down, I don't think it's really possible, I lived in a mountainous area and did loads of downhill training in my training runs, including a marathon which was downhill for 75% of the way. I generally love running downhill, so I didn't expect any problems. Yet I was still hit with the most overwhelming pain all over both legs when I got to 30k to go. On discussion with several comrades vets the conclusion is that whatever training you do the downrun is VERY painful. You just have to expect it, and keep running through it, it's muscle pain that wont do you any long term damage, it will just continue to be very painful for about 10 days after the race.

 

Scary !!

Step 1....

The road to South Africa technically began a few months ago when I foolishly signed up without doing a great deal of research. However, a 3.38.14 marathon in Sacramento should now officially qualify me – that was a personal best by 23 minutes, after a slightly more dedicated training period than I have managed before. Now I need to make sure I keep that progress up – a blog may help inject some discipline in to that process through public pressure....