www.bestjobben.com » running http://www.bestjobben.com My life as the Island Caretaker.... Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:36:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Images from the Comrades… http://www.bestjobben.com/2010/06/07/images-from-the-comrades/ http://www.bestjobben.com/2010/06/07/images-from-the-comrades/#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:36:15 +0000 Ben Southall http://www.bestjobben.com/?p=511 A few pics of the day on the road, Sunday May 30th. Enjoy – I did!

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]]> http://www.bestjobben.com/2010/06/07/images-from-the-comrades/feed/ 1 Summary of the Comrades… http://www.bestjobben.com/2010/06/03/summary-of-the-comrades/ http://www.bestjobben.com/2010/06/03/summary-of-the-comrades/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:19:21 +0000 Ben Southall http://www.bestjobben.com/?p=503 After training for the last six months and finally getting through my second Comrades ultramrathon in my best ever time I have taken the chance to totally relax for the past couple of days – I seriously don’t think I could have done much else though.

The 89km race took loads out of me and my legs are only now back to full strength after sitting on my ass for two days relaxing in the winter sunshine of the Drakensberg mountains at Didima Camp near Catherdral Peak.

A few pictures from the race are below and there’s also a few of the camp too, so rather than dribble on as I usually do I’ve prepared two videos to summarise the experience. The first giving a tour of the route and the second a longer version showing how I took on the race. Enjoy.

Tour of the Route

The Race itself

Back on the blog again soon…

Ben :)

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]]> http://www.bestjobben.com/2010/06/03/summary-of-the-comrades/feed/ 0 Comrades complete! Time to recover… http://www.bestjobben.com/2010/06/02/comrades-complete-time-to-recover/ http://www.bestjobben.com/2010/06/02/comrades-complete-time-to-recover/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:53:33 +0000 Ben Southall http://www.bestjobben.com/?p=494 I did it – after 6 months of pretty hard training I managed to complete the 89.25km Comrades Ultramarathon in 9hrs 32mins which is 50 minutes quicker than my previous best from two years ago during my Afritrex expedition.

It’s now a couple of days later and the legs are starting to recover – I can almost lower myself into a chair without using my arms! Downhills and stairs are still pretty challenging mind and it’ll be a couple more days before I can even think about going for another run…maybe I should just chill for a while.

View from Didima camp

After the race I headed up into the Drakensberg mountains to a place called Didima to get away from the outside world and it’s the perfect place to recover I can tell you. With views to Cathedral Peak and the entire mountain range the only disturbance up here is the occasional baboon trying to get into the room. Beware people!

Having some spare time has given me the chance to put together a couple of short movies about the Comrades which I filmed enroute during the Tour of the Route and the race itself but having a very limited internet connection means I won’t be able to get them up here for viewing until later in the week. They’ll also be some awesome pics of the sunrise over the peaks too.

Off horseriding this morning and the quad-biking too to explore the area as my legs just about get me to the restaurant at the moment!

Back with you soon

Ben :)

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