Memories from my second Comrades

This week's mileage:
Monday - rest
Tuesday 12
Wednesday 3
Thursday 14.5
Friday - rest
Saturday 5, parkrun 27:10
Sunday 15 - from home to Lake Morris Road and back.

I downloaded the Comrades special from 2012 from Talk Ultra and listened to it while doing my long run up and down Lake Morris yesterday. It made me think about my 2014 down run, which I am hopefully going to get to do again this year. My leave is yet to be approved.

My goal was a sub-11 for 2014, but it was not to be. I missed my sister just before the half way point and didn't hang around to catch her - she had gone off to the toilet! I ended up not making it to the half way point in the time I had set and was about 2-3 minutes off my pace. With the down run, that is probably not too much of a problem as you can make up some time going down the hills in the second half of the race.

I did think about the fact that I was coming home and doing the 3M3D, so didn't want to 'kill' myself on Comrades. But no such aspirations this year. I intend to run on pace and run at my limit to get that sub-11 and collect my bronze medal. I have two Vic Claptons and my back to back medal, but I think it's time to aim for the bronze. One mistake I made on the last down run was to not have splits often enough. I'm going to check the course and work out how fast I need to go for each kilometre this year.

The one photo is taken on Lake Morris Road from one of the lookouts. It's part of the 3rd day of the 3M3D, so I'll be back there on 10 July, all going good. But I can't see that I'll be doing a good 3M3D this year, based on my performance when I did the Comrades in previous years and then tried to back it up with the 3M3D! In the other photo you can just see the full moon coming up. Lovely sight on the way home today.