5 hr 55 min! That’s how long it took to run/walk/crawl to my first Marathon finish. Arrival in MumbaiI took a Spice-Jet early morning flight to Mumbai the day before the marathon. The weather gods were quite pleased and spared the fogs which had all flight schedules going haywire just a few days back. On [...]
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The results: Men’s full marathon (42.195kms): 1. Daniel Rono (Kenya) 2:12:03 2. Desse Mandago (Ken) 2:12.18 3. Stanley Leleito (Ken) 2:12.47 Women’s full marathon (42.195kms): 1. Mulu Seboka (Ethiopia) 2:33.15 2. Inga Abitova (Russia) 2:33.55 3. Leila Aman (Eth) 2:36.17 Indian performances: Men’s full marathon: 1. Nathuram (Army Sports Institute, Pune) 2:24.25 2. Ajit Singh [...]
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My last post before the big day. The Mumbai marathon 2006. My first marathon! The last big run after 5 tough months of running. Yesterday night I ran 5K in the dark, my last practice run. I dont even remember how or why this wierd idea of running a Marathon came about, probably this was [...]
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For all you number lovers, and statisticians, here are are the numbers for the Jan 15th Mumbai marathon (courtesy Mid-Day). 28,000 Runners overall 18,000 Participants in the The Dream Run 5,000 Will run the Half marathon 3,000 Will run the Full marathon 2,000 Will run in the Senior Citizen category 100 Will take part in [...]
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Today, I came across this news article on the progress of Indian marathoners over the years. It brought out some really amazing points: 1. The Indian men’s marathon record is about 28 years old in the name of Shivnath Singh. It was set at Punjab marathon in 1978, a time of 2:12:00. It is 4th [...]
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This week will be my last week of running before the Mumbai marathon, 2006. The distances I plan to run in this week are 5, 6, and 3 KM before running the 42K. Over the weekend, I ran the final long run, a 13K take-it-easy session. Guys, any ideas about the number of participants we [...]
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Jet airways is sending a 30 member strong team to support charity at Mumbai Marathon, including CEO Peter Luethi. India Infoline News What a wonderful gesture.
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Top Left – 2006, Top Right – 2005 Bottom – 2004. Just out of curiousity, and to find out if the route has changed over the years, I compared the maps of the 2004 and 2005 run to the 2006 one. 2006 and 2005 are more or less similar, only that the 2006 has the [...]
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Here are the running numbers of some of my blogger friends and me, in registration order Thanks to Sathish for adding on to this list. Mine : 552 Jacob : 565 Aditya : 827 Sathish : 903 Shyam : 950 If you are a blogger, and run, and are running the Mumbai marathon on Jan [...]
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