Reg » Tue Oct 28, 2014 10:22 am wrote:Woof, believe me it is self abuse. I did a 10k swim back in July but 15k was far, far harder, it's the running equivalent of 70k. It takes some training though, six days a week, twice on two of those days (gym at lunch, swim in the evening). I did many 8-10k training swims which now makes a 10k race seem rather tame!
The reason I like it though is there's no hills......
Stu the Red » Fri Oct 31, 2014 10:30 am wrote:
It's a pain in the backside running on the football pitch,
andy_g » Thu Oct 30, 2014 4:49 pm wrote:look at it this way. swimming is monotonous. all you have is the slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, of your hands cutting into the water and nothing else really changes. the scenery is essentially the same and your there is nothing totake your mind of the exertion. road running is the same. all you have is the slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, of your feet hitting the tarmac, mile after mile after mile.
running in the mountains is great. over 45km you'll spend some time running over well worn tracks, then maybe you'll have a section of technical rocky scrambling, then maybe you'll descend a while through a beech forest with mud and twigs to negotiate, then maybe there's a 600m climb which ends up on a mountain crest at over 2000m. there's wild flowers, all kinds of birds, and cows and horses. you regularly get rewarded with the kinds of vies i have in my sig. the kms just fly by!! its true that after being on your feet for some hours already being faced with a long, steep climb is kind of tough, but you know there'll be a reward at the top of it.
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