Sunday 14 March 2010

K42 training

Today was my last 'long' training before next month's K42. Last year I won the K42 on my first attempt at a marathon, and my prize was a trip to Argentina to compete in the K42 final.


Today I ran for 4hr45 mins (my longest ever training run). I ran the last section of the Gran Canaria Chellenger route along the barranco to Santa Brigida. I chose this route because it follows a dry river bed for most of the way, which is very similar the final 15km of the K42 route, and it was this section that I suffered the most last year.



I felt good for most of the run, until the final 30mins. However I had my girlfriend Alison to keep my company during this section. She is training for a 5km Race for Life this summer and ran to meet me.

Sunday 7 March 2010

Lizzy Hawker wins Transgrancanaria 2010

British ultra running super star, Lizzy Hawker, has won the 2010 edition of Trangrancanria.


The Swiss based North Face runner lead from the start, giving most of the top men a run for their money in the 123km ultra marathon across the beautiful island of Gran Canaria. At the 83km aid station in El GaraƱon Lizzy was in 6th position over-all, and was feeling very strong. With no pressure from the other girls in the race, she was able to cruise the last 40km finishing in 11th position over-all, beating many top male athletes.

The mens race was won by Bejarano Miguel Heras (13 hours, 04 minutes 14 seconds), who took the lead near the start and held it to the end. This was his first time running Transgrancanaria which he described as very hard and the biggest win of his short ultradistance running career.

Over an hour later finished Arnau Julia in 2nd place, repeating the same postion as last year. In 3rd was last year's champion Adolfo Aguilar.

Thursday 4 March 2010

Training with Lizzy Hawker



Over the past few weeks I have been working for Trans Gran Canaria which is a 123km Ultra Trail race across Gran Canaria that takes place this weekend.

Many great athlete have run this race including ultra running legend Marco Olmo. This year´s star entrant is Britain´s Lizzy Hawker.

Lizzy has won Ultra Trail Mont Blanc twice and is the 100km World Champion.

I had the opportunity to train the other day with Lizzy and to pick her brain to try to find the secret to her success!


More to come soon!!