With only 164 days to go until the race today marked the first day of official training. I'll be using Hal Higdon's recommended plan for Comrades which starts this week with 36 miles and builds to 75 mile weeks. It's going to be more running than I've ever done but I don't want to travel all the way to South Africa and not finish the race.
Some people are questioning my sanity for wanting to run a race of 56 miles. That may be a fair thing to question. I have never claimed to be sane, indeed I may be quite out of mind. Actually when I stop and think about it I think it is perfectly fair to say that I am indeed out of my mind. Having visited Africa (Kenya) back in 1995 and experienced African poverty first hand I have been quite out of my mind over this great injustice in the world.
So I am running Comrades with Team World Vision to make a difference in our world. My goal is to find sponsors for 56 kids in World Vision projects in South Africa. I should have the names of those kids and details on how you can sponsor a child in support of my running this race some time in January.
Stay tuned.
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