About Marathon Des Sables

The Marathon Des Sables (MdS) is known as the toughest footrace on Earth. The distance covered is 243km's in the Sahara desert, run in 49 degrees Celsius heat while every athlete carries his or her own equipment, food etc. weighing in at around 9-13kg's.

This blog is aimed at telling my story. I will record my preparation for the MdS 2013 in detail in the hope that it will help my fellow runners.

Sunday, 8 July 2012

Augrabies 1st Training Week





This has been a great training week. I managed to run 61km’s in total, at an average pace of 5:46/km (10.4km/h). I ran moderate hills with a total accent of 1,452m for the week. This was my base training week so from now on things will become a little more intense.

On Friday afternoon I ran a comfortable 21km’s followed by a relaxed 14km run on Saturday.

The Augrabies Multi-Stage endurance race is now only 15 weeks away and tomorrow is the start of my endurance week. I will run about 65km’s for the week but with 8kg’s in my race pack. The idea would be to keep it slow around 70% (65-75%) of my base week pace. So my target is to average 7.28 km/h (min 6.76km/h – max 7.8km/h). This translates to an average pave of 8:14/km (8:53/km – 7:42/km).

I will be finalizing my race menu during this week and next week so that I can give it a try during the following week. The aim is to have all my kit, including food sorted with 8-weeks to go so that I can train within a realistic weight margin.

Thank you for visiting my blog, we reached 24,800 visits since January 2012 and am averaging around 114 visits per day, your interest is really appreciated.

Genis


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