Comments on: Never Again!!! http://www.reluctantrunner.net/never-again/ Thu, 19 May 2011 18:40:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Philip van Gass http://www.reluctantrunner.net/never-again/comment-page-1/#comment-248 Philip van Gass Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:42:29 +0000 http://reluctantrunner.net/?p=727#comment-248 Hi Candice, When I started reading this entry I thought it was the Midmar Mile you were writing about, which I have completed twice before. How far did you have to swim ? I know how frightening swimming in open water can be ! I have had a few scary moments myself when I was younger in the waters around Durban. I am glad that you have not been discouraged from participating in other events like this. Maybe swimming the Midmar Mile will help you or even just swimming in the surf, although the waves around Cape Town are not all that scary. Try Brighton Beach off the Bluff in Durban !!! By the way I slashed 1 minute and 15 seconds off my 10km. time at the Eskom race on Wednesday. Things are looking up. Cheers Philip. Hi Candice,

When I started reading this entry I thought it was the Midmar Mile you were writing about, which I have completed twice before. How far did you have to swim ? I know how frightening swimming in open water can be ! I have had a few scary moments myself when I was younger in the waters around Durban. I am glad that you have not been discouraged from participating in other events like this. Maybe swimming the Midmar Mile will help you or even just swimming in the surf, although the waves around Cape Town are not all that scary. Try Brighton Beach off the Bluff in Durban !!!

By the way I slashed 1 minute and 15 seconds off my 10km. time at the Eskom race on Wednesday. Things are looking up.

Cheers
Philip.

]]> By: Cands http://www.reluctantrunner.net/never-again/comment-page-1/#comment-233 Cands Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:26:07 +0000 http://reluctantrunner.net/?p=727#comment-233 Hi Richard, I hear you about getting back on that horse - got my swimming stuff with me today so that I can hit the pool after work, far from the open water but at least I'm stubborn enough to get over this thing. Hi Richard, I hear you about getting back on that horse – got my swimming stuff with me today so that I can hit the pool after work, far from the open water but at least I’m stubborn enough to get over this thing.

]]> By: Cands http://www.reluctantrunner.net/never-again/comment-page-1/#comment-232 Cands Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:21:59 +0000 http://reluctantrunner.net/?p=727#comment-232 Fred, thanks so much for the encouraging words they really do mean a lot to me :) Fred, thanks so much for the encouraging words they really do mean a lot to me :)

]]> By: Fred http://www.reluctantrunner.net/never-again/comment-page-1/#comment-231 Fred Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:31:28 +0000 http://reluctantrunner.net/?p=727#comment-231 Wow Candice! HUGE kudos to you for finishing after that swimming incident...Sounds like it was absolutely terrifying, especially for someone who is not a natural born swimmer. I know this is nothing compared to your gazillion mile Comrades run, but I have to say I'm truly impressed with your strength (inner strength)and how damn gutsy you are! Sounds corny, I know...but you are definitely an inspiration! Whether or not you do another triathlon really doesn't matter...what matters is you 'made your own luck' and took this on with everything you had. Can't do any better than that. Congratulations, Candice! Fred Wow Candice! HUGE kudos to you for finishing after that swimming incident…Sounds like it was absolutely terrifying, especially for someone who is not a natural born swimmer.

I know this is nothing compared to your gazillion mile Comrades run, but I have to say I’m truly impressed with your strength (inner strength)and how damn gutsy you are! Sounds corny, I know…but you are definitely an inspiration! Whether or not you do another triathlon really doesn’t matter…what matters is you ‘made your own luck’ and took this on with everything you had.

Can’t do any better than that.

Congratulations, Candice!

Fred

]]> By: Richard Mackey http://www.reluctantrunner.net/never-again/comment-page-1/#comment-230 Richard Mackey Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:49:43 +0000 http://reluctantrunner.net/?p=727#comment-230 This sounds like a "Get right back on that horse" situation, except I haven't been in the open ocean to swim since I was a kid, and even then not far out, so I'm a bad one to be giving advice on the subject. But I think if you made it the first time, it'll be easier the next time, and man, will you be FIT! This sounds like a “Get right back on that horse” situation, except I haven’t been in the open ocean to swim since I was a kid, and even then not far out, so I’m a bad one to be giving advice on the subject. But I think if you made it the first time, it’ll be easier the next time, and man, will you be FIT!

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