MK, the army of the then banned ANC, electrified millions of oppressed people to rise against the apartheid regime. Today, its veterans are being used in factional battles within the ruling party. Jack and His Comrades is a short story from Celtic Fairy Tales - Kids Short Stories for St. Updated ACE 3, CBA and ASR AI for next coop night. On the upcoming Sunday, we’re going to give ACRE 2 a go as a replacement for TFAR. An article about the landing of the Granma, which brought the Castro brothers back to Cuba in 1956. COMRADES MARATHON part 3 - by Max Jones. COMRADES 9. 8. We know he finished (in 1. Comrades starts at 0. I arrived at 0. 5: 3. By climbing over the barriers, though, I was able to get to just in front of the 7: 3. There must have been at least 2. It took me 1 minute and 4. I had been standing. The . This meant, in practice, that the only accurate check I had of my speed over the ground was that for the last kilometre, which showed for just 5 seconds, each time I passed a marker and remembered to press the red button on my heart rate monitor's stop watch. The big advantage of running races in kilometres, particularly near the end, is that the markers are reached much more quickly than when they are in miles, but it was quite beyond my powers of mental arithmetic on the run to calculate my overall rate of progress by the formula (T- 1. K) where T was my elapsed time in minutes (so T- 1. K was the number of the last kilometre marker (so 8. K was my distance travelled). For the last three years since I'd bought the HRM, though, I've abandoned trying to work out my pace from the mile markers - I know of no marathon course, of the 7. I have run, where all the mile markers were within 1% of where they should have been, let alone within the 0. Ken Kaiser on that - ed). In the Trail's End, Oregon, marathon one year, the 7th mile took me 1. So I run to my heart rate monitor with targets of 1. A further irritation, however, was that in the early morning darkness I couldn't read my HRM, nor, with runners 2. I see the kilometre markers. I was therefore running blind for the first 4. I then missed the 7. There may have been some pattern as to which side of the road the km markers would be - if there was, I didn't manage to work it out - and it was 3 hours into the race before I saw three markers in succession. Not to worry about that, though, because apart from the slow start, I had had my 7. When some of the overseas athletes had gone over the course by coach on the Sunday, Brian, the guide on our coach, had spoken enthusiastically about the number and excellence of the aid stations. The first aid station I had been able to get to through the crowd was the third, just beyond the 8. I'd spotted. Coke was indeed on offer from the volunteers on the very first tables which stretched, at the most, over all of 1. It was, as Anita had said, being served in what looked like 2. I grabbed one and sucked it dry through the Mc. Donald's straw I'd taped to the back of my hand for the purpose - I'd found in my first marathon, London '8. I couldn't pour the drink down without having to stop : in London '8. I always sucked the CHO drink through my straw, running the while and passing hundreds at the aid stations - but, by the time I'd drunk it, I was already well past the little Coke tables. Perhaps they were short of time, I thought, it'll get better soon. Arms - traduction anglais-fran. Forums pour discuter de arms, voir ses formes compos. My schoolmates were none of them very interesting, but I somehow felt that, by Taking comrades of them, I was getting even with Antonia for her indifference. This sharing of space and mutual support and healing between our wounded human and canine veterans will be a key part of our rescue program -- veterans helping other veterans.
It didn't : the Coke bottles were not even half full thereafter. And the bananas, for fall- back Plan C? They were not on every station nor on every other one : in the first half of the race I found bananas on only two stations, the volunteer holding out, on a single dinner- size plate, unpeeled half bananas. At this stage, there were approximately 9. I took just one half banana at each. What I should have done early on, certainly within two hours of the start, was to have stopped, sat down on a nearby garden wall, and worked out a carbohydrate replenishment Plan D. This was really where I missed having my own family and friends to look after me, not just to hand me my drinks and eats but to contribute to the formulation of a race strategy. They were 7. 00. 0 miles away and still abed; here, atop Field's Hill and 2. I was part of a 1. My Plan C had equated a CHO requirement of 9. On the positive side of the equation, I knew from the experience of running the hilly Sheffield Marathon - where there is no carbo drink, only plain water, at the aid stations - the week after London '9. On the negative side, however, I had no knowledge of what the extra energy cost might be of the 4. Durban, let alone the greater drain on the CHO stores of the many steep inclines such as the sliproads : even an extra 5kcal/mile of CHO needed, less than 1. With the Coke bottles only one third full, that represented a loss of 6g of CHO per aid station : by half distance, that was a deficit from Plan C of 1. Yes, it's easy to see, after the event, what I should have done, but, alas, road racing, particularly ultramarathoning, is not the time for stopping, thinking and taking rational decisions. We press on, hoping that the situation won't get worse, even if we don't expect it to get much better. So on I ran, living for the moment and ignoring the possibility of disaster 3. By the time I had found those three kilometre markers in succession, I was running at just over 6 minutes per km and, the relationship between 6 and 6. I eventually worked out that, at that pace, I'd be home in 8. I went through halfway, virtually at the top of the climb as shown on the elevation map of the course, in 4: 1. All was not well. There are five named hills worthy of special mention in Comrades - Cowles, Field's, Botha's, Inchanga and Polly Shorts - the first three of which, all in the first half of the Up race, present little problem to a still- fresh runner used to running regularly over courses where the Race Directors describe undulating courses as . Inchanga, however, well over a mile long, is something else. Whereas I'd been bowling along an hour previously at 6 minute km with a heart rate of 1. Inchanga and I could only muster 1. Immediately thereafter, my heart dropped to 1. But no, I ran on for another 6km until, with 3. I decided I should try to conserve what little energy I must have left. So I walked the next kilometre : it took me 1. I had been on the road now for 5hrs. I was heading for a 1. Durban. So, restricting my walking to the hills,, I continued at what could best be described as a jogging pace of 7mins/km, 1. I shuffled along at this rate for another 2. I had taken to run the actual Knavesmire Brass Monkey 1/2 on a cold January day last year - and, going so slowly, I was now drinking two, still only one- third full though, bottles of Coke at each aid station. Then, with just over 1. I stopped at the Coke station just a little out of reach of the bottle and I stood there, swaying, but unable to move the extra four inches to grab it. Within a few seconds, salvation arrived in the form of another Angel, Cora van den Berg, this one with her husband, Philip. Phil and I will look after you. Cora, her teeth as sharp as those of the young lady on the Power. Ade stand, took a sachet at each aid station, opened it, poured the contents into the bottle she was carrying for that purpose, and then handed it to me with nursing sisterly instructions to . We reached the top of Polly's after 9. Even so, there were another 2. That's over 1. 00 a minute finishing a 5. London Marathon. It's a remarkable event is Comrades! I thanked Cora and Philip profusely, of course, for caring for me, while we were on the road and as we swapped addresses after we had finished. This is Comrades, Max. Nothing more to be said, really, so I gave her a kiss, shook Phil's hand, thanked them again and went off in search of my kit bag. It had been a day to remember. I now have 1. 0 months to decide whether to gamble another . Maybe I could persuade Coca. Cola's Anita to abandon those stupid sachets and revert to the open- topped cups the Power. Ade used to be dispensed in? Or, perhaps, I could put together a DIY kit, involving a bum- bag, a large Mc. Donald's drink carton and a pair of scissors? Dream on, Max, and perhaps one day you'll come home with the trophy for the oldest competitor to finish Comrades. I was 2nd oldest this year. Results summary : Of the 1. Up record; the first woman, 1. P. S. You may be thinking how come the winner of the race in just over half the time I took and that more that another 1. The problem confronting all ultramarathoners is in fact identical : how to get beyond the 2. In a normal ultra, with fewer than 1. In Comrades, most of the locals would find the official aid stations adequate for their jog/walk needs - 3/4 of the field finished in the last 2 hours at an average pace of 1. South Africans would be easily able to organise friends and families to provide their extra carbohydrate needs en route. It would be quite impossible, however, for Comrades to provide extra rations for a couple of hundred foreigners on the open aid stations, so, in effect, there are two groups of runners, namely the locals and the foreigners. What with the limited appeal of marathon running, let alone ultrarunning, before South Africa's sporting links were severed in 1. British, who did run Comrades were met by the organisers providing . There had been a close relationship between Comrades and London- to- Brighton, inaugurated by the Road Runners Club in 1. Four different South Africans held the . When Ann Trason, 1. Ultra. Running Magazine, she paid tribute to the 1. This year, the only foreigners to finish in the gold medal positions were 7 Russians (1st,3rd,4th,5th and 1. I had met at the Expo an unhappy Carl Barker who, despite having placed second, in 6: 0. London to Brighton, had not been granted super- elite status so, like me, he was on his own, too. I asked him at the finish how he had fared : the tone in which he answered ! Carl had finished in a time, 8: 2. Perhaps it shouldn't have done so, but reading that in the airport departure lounge helped me to believe that I hadn't run so badly after all.
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