Brad Brown on the road
Another week down, October done and dusted and we’re in the home straight of 2009. This year has flown by. There are still a couple of important goals to acheive this year if Comrades 2010 is going to happen. First things first, I got my entry in today for the race. Phase 2 of entries for the 2010 race has begun. The 15000 entries of previous runners has been reached and now entries are open for 5000 novices. I watched the 2 big city marathons, Soweto and New York, on telly today. It was inspiring to see the masses of people taking part in both. The elite athletes are phenomenal but its the average guy or girl that have overcome some serious obsticals to get to the start line that fires me up.
My training this week and month went well. I’m keeping up with the novice 12 hour finnish program on the runnersworld website. I do have a bit of a niggly left ankle. I hurt it on a run on Tuesday and have been very worried about it since. I ran on Friday and 
agrivated it. I spent the rest of the weekend trying to nurse it back to health and went for an easy run this afternoon and it seems to behaving. I can feel that its not 100% but it is getting better which means I might be able run it off. Hopefully.
November is going to be a good month I think. I was looking at my training program and it looks like we consolidating the progress we made in October and increasing the time on the road slightly. Its all preperation for the big jump in training in December. I’m planning on running a 15km night race on Wednesday 18 Novemeber in Benoni. That should be a great indicator of how I have progressed and aslo good preperation for the half marathon on 6 December. Hopefully by the next time I write about my training I’ll have the Garmin Forerunner 310XT, then you’ll be able to follow exactly what sort of training I’m putting in in preparation for Comrades 2010.
