BackPackTraining 101

This weekend's training consisted of time on the legs with a heavy backpack. Almost 10h of training with a backpack that I thought weighed about 8kg........yeah right. Try 10.5kg!!!
How it's possible for 8kg of rice to weigh 10.5kg, is beyond me. But then........the rice was not the only thing that was in my pack.....let's add the food, camera, cellphone, car keys. Jip, us girls we don't travel light!

Needless to say, my shoulders are sore. VERY SORE. and there is NO way I would be able to run 250km with such a heavy backpack. Not that I ever planned for it to clock in at that weight, but at least now I know it's out of the question. I don't want to be the last one over the finish line every day.....

Then, another problem.......my backpack might be to big for me. Kept adusting the straps the whole time, because the pack just didn't want to 'sit still'. So much for my fancy ass OMM - I still think it's a very cool pack with loads of cool little pockets everywhere. But if the pack is not a tight fit, I'm afraid it might be the end of our very brief relationship.

Dear OMM, it's not you, it's me....we can still be friends?

Back-up backpack plan - the old faithfull Raidlight! Now that is a very small pack, and it will be a very very tight squeeze to fit everything in that pack. But it's do-able, it will just take careful planning and there won't be space for anything extra, or nice to have. Bare essentials only. Maybe xtra socks....and that's it!

I do have a creative side to me.....so pimping the Raidlight with an extra pocket or 2 is very do-able.

Better get this backpack issue sorted ASAP. The clock is ticking and the Sahara is waiting for no-one.

happy training everyone!

117 Days to go

After an EPIC weekend of training.........EPIC......as in THE WORST EVER training weekend of the year. Or even last year. It was just one of those weekends were I could not get my feet moving. Everything was sore - legs, feet, .....just about my whole body.

That might be due to the fact that I had a EPIC COOL training weekend the previous one. 50km of running in Table Mountain. From Camps Bay to Kalkbay. 11hrs later......

So that training run came back and bite me in the back side this weekend. I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later. I see this past weekend as "hitting rock bottom" and it can only get better from here onwards.

With only 117 days to go, there is no more time for bad training weekends. IT IS SOMETHING OF THE PAST. punt klaar punt

On Friday I paid the balance of the entry fee for The Sahara Race end of October - and suddenly it hit me. This is it!!!!!! Only 4 months to go 'till the biggest running event of my life. Faaarrrkkkk!!!!!

There are still so much to do - Training - KIT - FOOD.


Training.........ignoring this weekend's EPIC FAIL......is going according to plan.
It's a new week, with new goals. The goal - TO follow my training program to the T.
No "I'm not in the mood to do speed work" - Just do it. Don't stop when tired, stop when done. Don't stop when tired, stop when done. Don't stop when tired, stop when done............Ja Ja, this is me talking to myself.

KIT.......got almost everthing I need for the race. A few mandatory are still missing, but nothing that a bit of online shopping can't fix.

FOOD........alot.


Training for the Sahara Race, is a journey....... A journey I'm planning to enjoy every km of the way.


"We no longer see the obstacles behind us, but look forward to the ones ahead" - Killian Jornet