Brad Brown

What a great start to the new year. My training has been going really well and I feeling fit and fab (although the foot is still a bit niggly). I think one of the benefits of running through December is that by the time January is in full swing you have hit the ground running and there is no need to try and play catch up. I noticed yesterday on Twitter ( You can follow me here)  a few people had mentioned that there were 140 days left to go until Comrades 2010. Someone else mentioned that Read more…

December has been one silly month! I am actually glad it is over to tell you the honest truth. I’ve been pretty slack updating you on the progress of my training but at least I haven’t been slack on the training. I seem to be recovering pretty well from my foot injury (although it has been playing up a bit the last couple of days again). I’ve managed to get a few 10km runs in the last two weeks which has been good preparation I think for the Read more…

It has been a pretty productive week as far as my training has gone. I am still battling with the tendonitis in my left foot but as the week has progressed my foot has improved. I’m still going for physio every day with Derrick Carter and he seems to be working some serious magic. I was able to run 4 times this week; Monday I did about Read more…

The weather this week played havoc with my raining plans. With two weeks to go to the Roy Brown memorial half marathon I really wanted to run the 15km night race last Wednesday in Benoni just to see how I would cope with a slightly longer distance. I was really nervous the first half of the week leading into it, but Wednesday morning arrived and the weather was shocking. I decided not to risk getting sick by running in the cold and wet conditions. That left me with a huge dilemma as Read more…

Brad Brown

There are two and a half weeks to go to my first half marathon since 1993. I can’t believe how quickly time is passing. It seems like just yesterday that I was looking at the race calendar and thinking to myself that I should be ok because there was about ten weeks to go. I’m running my first 15km since I started running again tomorrow. I’m also starting to get a bit nervous.

Although my training has been going reasonably well I am worried that I may be slightly underdone coming into it. I have uploaded my training for this week onto my Garmin Connect Dashboard. I’m still not going to break any land speed records but I am getting quicker. I took 2 minutes off my best 5km time yesterday and at the same time ran 5km’s without walking. I’m definitely getting fitter and I’m loving the process.
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