Lovely chat with Sean Robson.

Running Notes:
Route: Mouille Point Lighthouse – Seacliffe Road – Mouille Point Lighthouse
Distance: 8km

Speedwork in the gym. Surprisingly managed an average of 14.5 on my one minute fast sections. Not bad.

Running Notes:
Speed: (10 mins at 10, 1 min at 14.5 followed by 1 min at 10, repeat for 10 mins)
Distance: 4km

Not my normal trainer, different, not right though.

Notes:
360 Training

First word ‘late’, second word ‘wind’, third word ‘headache’.

Running Notes:
Route: Cable station – End of Tafelberg Road – Cable Station
Distance: 10km

Needed to get a ‘long one’ in as I missed the Bay to Bay 30km race last Sunday. I was concerned that my London ‘training’ had been poor to middling but I screamed round today and felt great. Bounced around the rest of the morning. This is why I run.

Running Notes:
Route: Home – Kloof Nek – Camps Bay – Kloof Nek – Signal Hill – Home
Distance: 24km

14km + children + sun + hangover = painful. I imagine the 7 hours of walking, plus 2 hours of watching them swim (scream) in a blindingly cold river added up to approximately the equivalent 5km of cardio. Hurumph – keep telling myself it could have been a bit of a leg strengthener.

Notes:
Du Toitskloof trail
Distance: 14km (that’s a 5km run if I’m being generous)

Better get it in, celebrating the old birthday with the mates tonight, have no idea what state I’ll be in tomorrow.

Running Notes:
Route: Mouille Point Lighthouse – Seacliffe Road – Mouille Point Lighthouse
Distance: 8km

OMFG the weigh-in after Christmas…

Notes:
360 Training

First run back on SA turf and it felt great.

Running Notes:
Route: Home – Kloof Nek – Home
Distance: 8km

The friend said I was hardcore on the phone that evening, ‘nope’ I said, ‘just stupid’. Then I had a salad in a pizza restaurant just to deny myself even more.

Notes:
360 Training

Getting on the silver red-eyed bird tonight so have no sodding clue when I’ll be awake enough to run again.

Running Notes:
Route: Mum’s house – Shooter’s Hill – Mum’s house
Distance: 12km

Same old 12km.

Running Notes:
Route: Mum’s house – Shooter’s Hill – Mum’s House
Distance: 12km

So ah’ve don abaaht 15 runs on the exact same bleedin’ route in the laahst free weeks and blimey its boring. All the same, nuffink different, nah chinas to run wiv, all on me tod. Same ald pavements, same ald people starin’ an havin’ a butchers daan the ‘ighstreet like they aint never seen nobody exercising before. And oh the ‘orror of finking that I’m gonna be more than a little bit pony when I git back. And faak me its taters.

Running Notes:
Route: Mum’s ‘ouse – Shooter’s ‘ill – Mum’s ‘ouse
Distance: 12km

And like all great starts it begins with a hangover, not enough sleep and nasty weather. I forced my sister out of bed and we went on our traditional New Year’s shuffle/walk.

Running Notes:
Route: My sister’s house – Regent’s Canal towpath towards Hackney – My sister’s house
Distance: 12km