Yesterday on Ask Coach Parry we focused on your times in a 10km, 21km and 42km in order to get the Comrades Marathon Vic Clapham medal, the sub 12 hour finishers’ medal. And as promised today we are going to chat about a sub 11 Comrades Marathon medal. Lindsey you obviously mentioned yesterday, it is not an exact sign, but it will give people a rough guide on what they should be aiming for over the shorter distances. What should your 10km, half marathon and marathon time be if you are

On this episode of the Ask Coach Parry we chat about choosing the right Comrades Marathon training programme for you. Today’s question was submitted by Barbara Florence. She attended the first of our 2015 Comrades Marathon webinars that we started this week and she really enjoyed it. Barbara is sitting with a bit of a, a dilemma at the moment. It’s a great question and I’m sure you can help, and I’m sure there are lots of people sitting with the same problem. She says she’s undecided as

Mthunzi submitted his question for the Ask Coach Parry Podcast today, and it is somewhat related to the chat we have had regarding training to heart rate and building your fitness base using your heart rate monnitor. His question goes as follows: “My training routine is as follows: I go to gym (focus on legs), road run (10/ 11km in approximately 75 minutes), running on a track (15 rounds alternating 2 fast and one jogging), hill repeat (5 repeats of a 600m stretch of road) and 2hr slow run

Today on the Ask Coach Parry podcast we chat nutrition, particularly the LCHF diet that Prof Tim Noakes talks about. Today we answer a question from Val Opperman. She wants to know if you believe in and follow the diet LCHF diet? She wants to know what your views are. Her reason for asking is at one of your Comrades Marathon seminars last year in Durban you advocated a healthy and balanced diet. She says she finished the Comrades Marathon this year and directly attributed it to your

We chat about time constraints when training for the Comrades Marathon on this edition of the Ask Coach Parry podcast. Lennard van Wyk has recently changed jobs, and now has to work on Saturdays. He has always done almost every single race every Saturday. He wants to know how not being able to run frequent races will impact his Comrades Marathon training? Will it be a good thing or a bad thing? Read More · Training Programs · www.CoachParry.com

On this edition of the Ask Coach Parry Podcast we chat about the time of your longer races in the build up to the 2015 Comrades Marathon. Should you be running really long now or should you be targeting shorter, faster races before the end of the year? The question Lindsey answers today was submitted by Steven and he writes: “I have been running for about 18 months but still consider myself a novice. Last year I was scraping 5 hours for the marathon and 2h20ish for the half marathon. I

We chat about how to do the hill repeats in the Comrades Marathon training programmes. Louise Routenbach submitted her question via our website. It is quite interesting too, it has to do with your Comrades Marathon training programmes and the hill repeats you’ve got in them. Louise is following your Comrades Marathon bronze medal training programme and she wants to know do you run up for 2 minutes and then down or up for 1 minute and then down for 1? The pace of 5.10 – 5.20, does that

The last couple of days we have chatted about the your Comrades Marathon training programme. First of all we chatted about how to choose the right Comrades Marathon programme for you. In the last episode of the Ask Coach Parry Podcast we chatted about the pace you should run your different Comrades Marathon training runs at within those Comrades Marathon training programmes. Today we chat a little about having time based Comrades Marathon training programmes as opposed to having distance

Today on the Ask Coach Parry Podcast we chat about running shoe wear patterns and what could be causing irregular running shoe wear patterns in this case. Grant submitted his question and this is what he wanted to know: I don't know if this is something you'd be able to answer, but if so, your guidance would really be appreciated. I have been running now for 2 years and am planning on doing my first Comrades Marathon next year. I just have one concern though that I'd like to have resolved

With entries for the 2015 Comrades Marathon opening soon we are starting to get more and more questions about next year’s Comrades. Today we chat about speed work and how it relates to your Comrades Marathon training, particularly if you are aiming for a Bill Rowan medal. Jaryd Weelson got in touch via our website and asked if one could try incorporating speed work into the runs for the Comrades Marathon Bill Rowan programme to increase speed? Or would it be in addition to the Bill Rowan

In this episode of the Ask Coach Parry Podcast we chat about an ITB release. Leon TeBurgh submitted a question. Leon said he has been struggling with a knee problem for about 3 years now, after a long time of being lazy and hardly doing any exercise at all. He has been to 2 physio’s, 2 biokineticists, 2 surgeons as well as a podiatrist. All of them told him that the problem is iliotibial band syndrome or ITB, with the exception of the podiatrist, who told me to get new shoes, gave him a

Talking branded radio and content in Zurich at the International Radio Festival

Vash had a chat to Steve Monegetti in the lead up to Coffs Harbour Running Festival. Have a listen here!