Few runners have escaped the frustration of a running injury, but it can be an opportunity to rebuild and return to running stronger, says Coach Neville
Planning when to run your qualifier is important. For those runners that won’t have run an early qualifier in October or November, the aim is to run the qualifier sometime between January and the beginning of March.
The average pace to complete the Comrades marathon varies, depending on the exact distance. But if we use 88 km, then your average pace needed to finish under 12 hours is 8.10 min/km or 13.08 min/mile
In these final weeks to the Comrades marathon we are tuned into how we feel, sometimes panicking over symptoms that disappear when the starting gun fires
