Much the same as last week, and the one before, and the one before that…
Running notes
Route: Kloof Nek car park to the Lower Cable Station turn at the end of the tarmac on Tafelberg Road and back
Height climbed: 180m
Time started: 17:51
Total time: 1:17:21
Total distance: 12.59km
Average pace: 6:13 min/km
Weather conditions: Sunny with breeze
Temperature: 22˚
Runner’s condition: Fine
Oh my favourite run. Its even better when I don’t have to run up Kloof Nek.
Running notes
Route: Kloof Nek car park to the end of Signal Hill and back
Time started: 11:05
Total time: 39:44
Total distance: 7km ish
Weather conditions: Sunny and hot
Temperature: 28˚
Runner’s condition: Fine
The lazy refers to my Saturday run starting at 7.30am instead of 6! A lie in! I met Kirsty at The Chapman’s Peak Hotel and together we ran part of the Two Oceans route. Pretty nasty weather and got soaked on the way back, but the conversation brightened it up.
Running notes
Route: Chapman’s Peak Hotel, over Constantia Nek to the traffic lights at the M3 up towards UCT and back
Height climbed: ?
Time started: 07:31
Total time: 3:20
Total distance: 34km
Weather conditions: Cloudy then rain
Temperature: 20˚
Runner’s condition: Good
Not bad – 39:44
Running notes
Route: Gym
Height climbed: Flat
Time started: 17:01
Total time: 1:20 ish
Total distance: 14km ish
8km time trial: 39:44
Temperature: 26˚ (inside Wembley Square 30˚)
Runner’s condition: Feeling good
Title says it all. This week the evil pan said to do 10 repeats. Bah humbug.
Running notes
Route: Gym
Height climbed: 10 x 2 minute hill repeats (9 at 5 incline and the last one at 7 which was depressing as I clearly wasn’t trying with the others)
Time started: 06:12
Total time: 1:05 ish
Total distance: 11.5km ish
Temperature: Outside 20˚ (inside Wembley Square probably 24˚)
Runner’s condition: Fine
Mountain with Atlantic.
Running notes
Route: Kloof Nek car park to the Lower Cable Station turn at the end of the tarmac on Tafelberg Road and back
Height climbed: 180m
Time started: 17:51
Total time: 1:17:21
Total distance: 12.59km
Weather conditions: Sunny with breeze
Temperature: 20˚
Runner’s condition: Fine
That is the second furthest I have ever been. Nice little jog around the Peninsula until I left a blob of my DNA on the road to Noordhoek when I stacked it again (hell, it wouldn’t be a long run if I managed to stay vertical the whole way would it?). I lost the good runners on Chapman’s Peak (no surprise there). Ended up in the sea at Hout Bay after debating with Wiebs whether it was safe from parasites and god knows what else. We jumped in anyway and kept our mouths shut.
Running notes
Route: Start at the Chapman’s Peak Hotel, over Constantia Nek, through Constantia over the M3 and meet Main Road. Turn right through Lakeside and on via Muizenburg, Kalk Bay and Fishoek. Turn right at the circle and on to Noordhoek, over Chapman’s Peak Drive and back to the Hotel
Height climbed: ?
Time started: 06.30
Total time: 5:00 (about 20 minutes for stops)
Total distance: 46.5km
Weather conditions: Southeaster straight in the face from Main Road to Fishoek
Temperature: 27˚
Runner’s condition: Bitching
Right so because I got lazy and haven’t filled in my blog for 3 weeks I have no idea where I went today. I assume it involved Chappies because long runs always end up there.
Running notes
Route: ?
Height climbed: ?
Time started: ?
Total time: 3:39
Total distance: 30km
Temperature: ?
For some reason it didn’t want me to do a time trial tonight. Just 40 minutes. Bliss. Joy. Wonders of wonders.
Running notes
Route: Gym
Time started: 18:12
Total time: 40 minutes
Total distance: 7km ish
Temperature: Outside 20˚ (inside Wembley Square probably 24˚)
Runner’s condition: Fine
I love my life.
Running notes
Route: Gym
Height climbed: 9 x 2 minute hill repeats (9 at 5 incline)
Time started: 06:14
Total time: 1:05 ish
Total distance: 11.5km ish
Temperature: Outside 20˚ (inside Wembley Square probably 24˚)
Runner’s condition: Sigh
…running for an hour the day after you race a marathon. Most of the AAC peeps steered well clear in case they caught something. Luckily we only did Signal Hill as the wind was pumping.
Running notes
Route: Kloof Nek car park to the Cable Station, turned because of the wind and ran to the end of Signal Hill and back
Height climbed: ?
Time started: 17:55
Total time: 1:00 ish
Total distance: 9km
Average pace: v. slow
Weather conditions: Gale force wind
Temperature: 19˚
Runner’s condition: Knackered
Much better than Red Hill, which tells me my muscles are stronger, and my training is working. Didn’t quite get the time I wanted of 4:10, and still much slower than my PB last year (3:51), but I didn’t have to walk between water stations. Oh yeah and I did nearly vomit at the end – not due to physical exertion of course, but due to an over extended stomach. The mixture of water, Coca-Cola, Powerade, and Gu would have been fine had I not drunk a chocolate milk…
Running notes
Route: Start in Simonstown, run across the peninsula like an idiot climb loads of hills and run back
Height climbed:
Time started: 06:00
Total time: 4:13:22
Total distance: 42.2km
Average pace: 6:02 min/km
Temperature: 28˚ ish with a pure evil 50kmph gale force South Easter mostly in the face
Runner’s condition: Fine
There I am on for an 8km PB in the gym when Dave announces ‘Congratulations, you have completed…’ WTF? I had only run two and a half K! Grr.
Running notes
Route: Gym
Height climbed: Flat
Time started: 18:34
Total time: 1:20 ish
Total distance: 15km ish
8km time trial: who the hell knows – think it was under 40 mins
8km average pace: see above
Temperature: 24˚ (inside Wembley Square 28˚)
Runner’s condition: Fine
Song of the run: Pussy Cat Dolls: Jai Ho
I did it, it was boring and then I did some weights, also boring.
Running notes
Route: Gym
Height climbed: 9 x 2 minute hill repeats (9 at 5 incline 10 and no I didn’t increase the speed)
Time started: Have no idea
Total time: 1:05 ish
Total distance: 11.5km ish
Temperature: Outside 23˚ (inside Wembley Square probably 27˚)
Runner’s condition: Fine
Song of the run: Wasn’t really listening
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