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Do the Comrades Marathon Pacing chart stake the lay of the land as well as the time you’ll lose at the start of the Comrades Marathon into account? Read More · Training Programs · www.CoachParry.com

Lindsey Parry has a couple of Comrades time saving rules. It is a strategy on how to save yourself 20 minutes on Comrades Marathon race day. This is how you do it. Read More · Training Programs · www.CoachParry.com

Comrades Marathon Pacing is one every runners minds this week ahead of Sunday’s Comrades Marathon. How fast is too fast? How slow is too slow? When to hold back and when to go? These are questions that are running through most Comrades Marathon runners this week. On today’s Ask Coach Parry Podcast we look at pacing and what sort of Comrades Marathon pacing strategy you should employ. Read More · Training Programs · www.CoachParry.com

We are into Comrades race week. This week we will be dealing with issues that are really important and will ensure that you have a good run on Sunday. Today on the Ask Coach Parry Podcast we deal with Comrades race week and what you should and should not be doing, particularly in the last few days before the big race. Read More · Training Programs · www.CoachParry.com

Today’s question comes in from Khagiso Moekoena and deals with the Comrades Marathon race week and how much you should run. Khagiso says he’s been resting since last Friday, should he continue to do so until Comrades or should he do 5 to 10kms maybe one or two days next week just to stretch the legs? Read More · Training Programs · www.CoachParry.com

There are less than 10 days to go until the 2014 Comrades Marathon and the question on everyone’s lips is what to do from now until Comrades race day? Comrades coach Lindsey Parry addresses that question today. Read More · Training Programs · www.CoachParry.com

Today’s question on the Ask Coach Parry Podcast was submitted by Mandla and it deals with the amount of mileage needed to run the Comrades Marathon and also if cycling training will help you finish the Comrades Marathon. Read More · Training Programs · www.CoachParry.com

Today’s question on the Ask Coach Parry Podcast comes in from Vicki Meggersee and deals with the Comrades seeding. In particular, the charity seeding batch. Read More · Training Programs · www.CoachParry.com

A lot of people are second guessing their training and the amount of training they’ve done in their Comrades Marathon preparation. Today’s question on the Ask Coach Parry Podcast comes from Doug Hardres-Williams and deals with Comrades Marathon mileage: Read More · Training Programs · www.CoachParry.com

Today’s question on the Ask Coach Parry podcast is injury related and was submitted by Tony. Tony has a bad case of plantar fasciitis. He asked what the immediate remedies are and what are the long term ones to get rid of plantar fasciitis? Read More · Training Programs · www.CoachParry.com

Today’s question on the Ask Coach Parry Podcast comes from Steve Taylor and deals with strategies to cope with running the Comrades Marathon in the heat. Read More · Training Programs · www.CoachParry.com

Today’s question on the Ask Coach Parry Podcast comes from Brendan Dunn and it is about long training runs for Comrades. Besides the mental edge that they give you, are runs of between 40-55km's necessary in training for the Comrades Marathon especially if a person has done other marathons and Ultras before? Read More · Training Programs · www.CoachParry.com

Today on the Ask Coach Parry Podcast we talk about running the Comrades Marathon with a heart rate monitor and what percentage of you max hr you should run at. Read More · Training Programs · www.CoachParry.com

Hi coach, I suffer terribly with cramp, I have done all my life but obviously a lot more now that I'm training for my first Comrades Marathon. What can I do or eat to avoid cramping while running? Or are there any supplements I can take pre and during races to stop myself from cramping? Read More · Training Programs · www.CoachParry.com

We all take a lot of multivitamins, omega’s and other nutritional supplements (including extra proteins and magnesium) every day. My question is this: on race day, should you take them before or after the race? Are there any supplements or vitamins that could hinder performance in a race? Read More · Training Programs · www.CoachParry.com

This is part three of the three part series about the Comrades route and race day (You can access Part One here and Part Two here) On day one we spoke about the start of the 2014 Comrades Marathon and what you can and should expect at the start of the down run in Pietermaritzburg. Yesterday we chatted about the first half of the down run and on today’s Ask Coach Parry Podcast we look at the second half of the Comrades Marathon from Drummond to the finish. Read More · Training Programs · www.CoachParry.com

This is part two of our description of the Comrades Marathon route. The first half of the down run can be very deceptive. This is what you can expect. Read More · Training Programs · www.CoachParry.com

We have been getting tons of questions about Comrades race day itself and in particular what you can expect as far as the Comrades Route goes. Over the next three editions of the Ask Coach Parry Podcast we are going to look at what you can expect at the start of the Comrades Marathon in Pietermaritzburg, the first half of the race up until Drummond and then the second half of the race from Drummond to the finish. Read More · Training Programs · www.CoachParry.com

This is episode 31 of the Ask Coach Parry Podcast and today’s question comes from Chew and it has to do with running the Comrades Marathon on a run walk strategy. Hi Lindsey, I am aiming for a sub 11 hour Comrades Marathon and I wanted to ask you about walk breaks for a bronze medal runner on the down run. How would you advise we take the regular walk breaks? Should we be doing it doing it by strictly time, for example walk 1 minute for every 30 minutes you run? If this is the case we may be walking down a hill and running an uphill and vice versa? Is that the correct way to go about it? Read More · Training Programs · www.CoachParry.com

Today's question on the Ask Coach Parry Podcast comes from Charles Malan: Hi Lindsey, I am not on any specific diet, I just just train. Is it wise to start on the Professor Tim Noakes Low Carb High Fat / Banting Diet this close to running the Comrades Marathon? At this stage I eat anything I want. (bread,meat, milk,eggs,rice,fat etc) and secondly, what must I eat the night before the Comrades and the morning of the race? If you want to find out more about Low Carb High Fat fueling when running, be sure to listen to this interview with Prof Tim Noakes. Read More · Training Programs · www.CoachParry.com