Story · Run
Nut grove
19 km
The walk to the nut groves and back.
Nineteen kilometres, out and home.
- It stands on
- 10 mile
What it takes
Before you go.
- Recommended first
- The 10 mile run
- Long run
- About 1½ hours, 4 times in the last 10 weeks, at least once in the last 5 weeks
- Weekly training
- About 3½ hours on average over 6 weeks, with an hour of riding or swimming counting as 30 minutes
- Running itself
- At least 2½ hours a week
- Taper
- An easier week before the event week
The story
In the Kalahari, as the near mongongo groves were eaten out, women walked farther for nuts. By August the round trip had grown to 19 km a day, with the load carried home. Source: Lee, The Dobe Ju/'hoansi.
The ladder
- 5 km/
- 10 km/
- 10 mile/
- Nut grove