After having spent the last 3 years with my Polar RS200sd Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Red)with footpod and HRM (currently USD 195), it was time to move on. I never turned into a person who gave a damn about how his heart beat, though I do give a big damn of how my heart ‘thinks’, [...]
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Runners for Life is organizing the first ever of its kind event in India on June 14th. The event will be held in Bangalore, and will include a running and a cycling leg. Following runs are part of the event: 10K running + 20K cycling 5K running + 10K cycling Event website: http://www.bangaloreduathlon.com/ Bangalore already [...]
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Sammy Wanjiru of Kenya confirmed his status as the #1 runner in Men’s marathon by winning the London marathon in a course record of 2:05:10, also a personal best. It was an interesting battle which kept the viewers engrossed all the way, from a fast start with a pace faster than world record pace (to [...]
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Results of Boston marathon 2009, courtesy bostonmarathon.orgMens winner: Deriba Merga (ETH) 2:08:42 Womens winner: Salina Kosgei (KEN) 2:32:16 Both winners are first time champions at Boston. Resources:Complete results and timings at official website results pageIAAF coverage of the race and resultsLive analysis of the race, see The Science of Sport blogPost race analysis by The [...]
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Update: see 2009 results here. Event date: April 26, 2009 Route map: course_map.pdf Participation: Strength in numbers This is the 29th edition of the run. The first London marathon took place in 1981, so it’s relatively a late starter in terms of marathon history. But London marathon is as big it gets, at least in [...]
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It was an interesting thought which I got today, to find out about any previous Indian and international participants at Comrades over the last few years. It was not as straightforward to find this data, but with some quick Google searches, I was able to retrieve what I was looking for. Comrades 2000 (biggest one [...]
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Event date: Apr 20th, 2009 (yes, that’s a Monday, a rarity for marathons) The Boston Marathon is the world’s oldest annual marathon, and ranks as one of the world’s most well-known road racing events. In 2008 nearly 22,000 runners completed the race. The 2009 run is the 113th edition of this great race, and there are [...]
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My last few weeks and months were spent in learning about ultramarathons, reading stuff over the net, getting some good books to understand what makes a runner go from running marathons to distances beyond that. I deliberated on running the Nov 15th Bangalore ultramarathon, but it really looked difficult to fit in with my other [...]
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It was a great week in terms of some consistent running. I ran five straight days for probably the first time in a few years (hope this continues). It was probably in 2005 that I was giving this sort of effort to running, when going for the first Hutch Delhi Half Marathon (which later became [...]
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