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