Comrades Marathon Blog

It’s rather hard keeping a running blog going when one isn’t running. For me, it’s kind of a symbiotic relationship, running and blogging. Do I run to blog, or do I blog to run?

Anyway, I’m finished with physio, so now I’m on my own. I’m currently able to run 5 minutes on a treadmill, with an ankle brace for about 5 minutes, with no pain. I plan to hold this for this week, then increase it to 7 minutes next week. The idea is just slowly increasing the amount of running, getting my ankle used the pounding that it has to endure when running.

I just have to patient, nothing else. I’ll be running normally within 3 months if all goes well.

Cycling however, causes me no pain, so it’s something I’ve been enjoying. I haven’t been that dedicated towards it, but am slowly getting into it. Sunday saw me go for my longest cycle, 67km, to Noordhoek via Chapmans Peak. Expect a post about that ride soon.

I’d like to finish this odd post off with a pretty graph of amount of hours I’ve exercised per week since July 2006. You can clearly see the dip of when I had my cast on.