rojo wrote:
rfmaioral wrote:
At the hotel one can take a full body massage with a physiotherapist for about 8 dollars; It was one of the best ones I've ever had. You can also get pace makers for your your workouts ie. runners who live across the street - they live so cheap yet they are amazing people who dont even realise how good they are. These are 63/64 min half marathoners who didn't make it and get underpaid to pace guests in their training sessions.
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Great post.
How much does it cost to have a pacer for the workout?
It costs approximately 7 dollars. This is what you pay the hotel. The runner maybe gets half of it. You end up giving extra tips to the runner.
They will do any type of training. When I was there the range was from a hard track session to a long run in a place 2h away from the hotel location.
One of the sessions was a long run of 20 miles. Left the Hotel at 5h30, started to train around 7h30, finished like 10h or so and got back to the hotel at around noon. Invited the runner to have lunch with me, he refused. I thought the reason was because he was not allowed to have lunch with Guests, so spoke with the Hotel manager who finally agreed for me to pay him lunch. He still refused to go without telling me why. Finally I understood. He was waiting for another runner to pace him for another 20 km. The guy barely ate during the 20 miles with me. Did not want the gels, barely had water. He covered over 30 miles in a regular saturday, with 4 hours of driving (someone else was driving, but still...).
And he was one of the kindest persons I knew in Ethiopia. Nice, humble, happy.