McGregor running high with Birkett’s Dusi training plan
Having accepted the offer to paddle the FNB Dusi with seven times champion Andy Birkett, world champion Hank McGregor is finding the approach to the 2018 edition of the three-day classic invigorating. "When Andy asked me, I thought it would be a great idea. The world No1 and 2 teaming up for the Dusi – that’s not going to happen that often," he quipped. "What I didn’t see coming was the way we would be doing our running training. "Shortly after Andy and I agreed to do the Dusi together, I was contacted by his running coach, and suddenly there was a running programme. "I have never had a running coach or training programme before. I used to just run as part of my training, some of it with a boat," he said. "Now we have a really thorough, intensive programme that we are following, and it is feeling fantastic," said McGregor. McGregor spent much of the end-of-year holidays in Underberg, in the foothills of the Drakensberg, where he kept up the thorough running regime, enjoying the adde...
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