Half Marathon Coming Up…

Cands / 2 Comments / July 6th, 2009 / Subscribe via RSS

I’m so excited, I feel like a child looking forward to the school holidays or Christmas because on Saturday is the Knysna Marathon (I’m only doing the half) – a beautiful run on dirt roads through the most spectacular indigenous forests  surrounding the town of Knysna on the Garden Route.  I did this race for the first time last year, just a month after the Comrades and ran it in 2hr 30min,  I was running with a friend who was doing it for her first time so took it easy the whole way. This year my intention was to start training a couple of weeks before the race so that I wouldn’t struggle but, in true Reluctant Runner fashion – my training only started on Saturday…

This race is a highlight on most runners and non-runners calendars.  Entries are limited so they are treated like gold and snapped up the minute they open – half of Cape Town empties to head up the coast for what promises to be a weekend of fun, pain and more fun (although somewhat limited depending on how stiff you are).   I have so many friends running this year not just the half but the full too PLUS a couple of converts who are marking this as their first tentative footstep into distance running!!  So if I don’t see you at the race, I’ll see you here afterwards for a full race run-down…

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