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Mumbai Marathon 2010 Training: The Maths of Sport

December 23, 2009

Okay, here’s my plan for the Mumbai Marathon 2010, written in stone. Not too many days to go, so its better to decide now that leaving it for later. The plan is to target a 4:40 finish with Plan A below, and switch to a sub 5:00 strategy with Plan B in case Plan A [...]

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Mumbai Marathon training, Badminton and Football

December 15, 2009

What a weekend it was which just went by! My training for the last few months had seen more downs than ups. Now that I recall, it has been about 50KM of running in the preceding 2 months. Thats right, this includes a fitness check run of 7KM a day before the Delhi Half Marathon, [...]

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Half Marathon Training: Schedules and Plans

October 6, 2009

Training for a Half Marathon needs focused training effort, particularly for beginners. A typical fitness runner who regularly runs a 5K or once in a while 10K would probably just be able to complete the distance, but for doing well at the distance, a training plan which can gradually ramp up his endurance to cover [...]

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What am I doing these day?

September 25, 2009

Well that is, besides writing a lot of posts covering various international marathons. The fact is, I have been trying to keep up with my running as well. This month of fasting gone by was one of the best running and fasting months I had. I hardly missed a run the entire month, and instead [...]

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Comrades 2010 Training: June 2009, a month to forget

July 7, 2009

Well, the title of this post says it all. June was a not a great training month by any means. It started off well with me sticking to the scheduled targets till the middle of the month, and then, well, it was all downhill from there. I had this discomforting feeling in my lower back [...]

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Comrades 2010: Official training plan published

July 1, 2009

Right on cue, the official training plan from Coach Lindsey Parry was published on the Comrades website. Following training plans are available

Sub-9 hours
Sub-11 hours
Finishers plan

The training plans start July 1st! Thats right, officially, training for Comrades 2010 has begun, today (though the first run happens tomorrow). At this point, I intend to go ahead with [...]

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Online exercise logs – what’s your poison?

June 15, 2009

After I got hold of my Garmin Forerunner 305, I tried to check out the best tools to retrieve and analyze all that recorded data. There are tons of websites and standalone tools for creating/importing your exercise logs. Every tool has a few plus and minus points. Some of the tools have great support for [...]

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Comrades 2010 Training: May 2009

June 4, 2009

This was my first month of training for Comrades 2010. I am following Hal Higdon’s Intermediate Spring training program. The target monthly mileage for the month was 151 KM, and mileage achieved was 119 KM. So, I was short by about 20% in this first month. The schedule called for 6 days of running a [...]

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Lake to Lake run in Nainital

May 30, 2009

Last few days were spent in a nice little resort located in Naukuchiatal, the lake with nine corners. Its not too far from the hill town of Nainital, and just under 4 kms from Bhimtal, another one of the many lakes around (the other big one being Sattal). What better opportunity for a runner than [...]

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Comrades 2010: Training plan and Strategy

May 11, 2009

I am dividing my training plan for Comrades 2010 into three parts or phases.
Phase 1: Base building phase
This will be the first 3 months of my training, May to July, and will mostly be oriented towards bringing regularity to my running, ensuring that I am running 5-6 days a week, that too in the hot [...]

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