Brad Brown

I’ve been chatting to mates who are planning on running Comrades 2011 about their thoughts and training for the 2011 edition of the race. Everyone seems to be gearing up to get their training on properly come January. I went back to my training logs from last December to see what I was doing. What a difference a year can make. Last December I was battling the peroneal tendonitis and was running on and off. I went back and found a 10km run that I did in December 2009 to compare it to the 10km I ran on Monday. I was more than 10 minutes quicker on Monday (bear in mind that I also cycled 60kms before Mondays run and the route I ran was a bit tougher than the 2009 one). My splits are what really interested me. My fastest kilometre a year ago was 6:46. My slowest yon Monday was 6:51. My fastest was nearly a minute and a half faster than the one last year. (See the two workouts below on Garmin Connect) Read more…