Its time to leave for entering the unchartered waters of Singapore Marathon. Just a couple of days now for putting to peace the unrest which was triggered in August. Its has been 4 months of practice, a lot of hard work for sowing the seeds, and finally the time for reaping the harvest. I still [...]
I would have loved to run this race, which took place yesterday (Nov 25th), but for my commitment for the Singapore marathon. This was the first time that the Chip Timing was introduced in any race in India, other than the Mumbai and Delhi runs. It was reported that about 30,000 runners participated in the [...]
This weekend finished what was the last week before the Singapore marathon week. It has been some really lazy couple of weeks now, not too much of running, smaller distances. I ran a fastish 10k midweek to check up on my pace, did it at 6:10 compared to the 6:24 target. Today was a longer [...]
Yesterday evening, I ran my final long run, and from now on, its taper time. I ran a distance of 34.75 KM as per my Polar RS200SD footpod, which would translate into actual run distance of 33 KM, given a 5% calibration error (my 21K at Vodafone half was shown as 22K). Total time taken [...]
Less that a month remaining (26 days to be precise) for my second full marathon. I skipped an entire week’s of practice after the Delhi Half marathon on Oct 28th. Did a 27K run last weekend though I was planning to do a 30K. But with no running all of last week, my legs were [...]
The Bangalore International marathon organized by Crossover has been postponed (once again), to Dec 30th. I think this is the second postponement of the event. I have already written a lot about the attitude of the organizers, so I don’t think this deserves any more space. Please take Dec 30th with a pinch of salt. [...]