Recent runs

The week after my last entry was mixed as far as running goes. I had a great outing in the early morning run - fantastic, not a sole in sight (seemed like!) and I had the roads to myself. I did 6k and it was one of the most enjoyable runs. After that I was in Kakinada and could only manage 3 runs for that week instead of 4 (one evening run was aborted after I was just not with it), but I managed to catch up with a long run on the Sunday, albeit a painful one.... I wanted to do some 18 odd km but after 14km or so my toes started jamming in my shoe as they swelled up... the Brooks Glycerine that I was wearing was not tested out for 15km+ runs and I realised that the toe box was too narrow. By the time I did 17 km it was two hours with some walking after 15.5 km - I was in pain. So gave up and went home... it took me 2 hrs. So, week 2 of Singapore prep looked like this:

1. Tuesday, 12th Aug, 3:30 AM, Chennai - 6 km
2. Thursday, 14th Aug, 7:15 PM, Kakinada - 5 km
3. Friday, 15th Aug, 8:00 PM, Chennai - 3 km walk
4. Sunday, 17th Aug, 5:15 AM, Chennai - 17 km

The last week was much more eventful, and the highlight was my Sunday run of 21.1 km in 2:14 tracking the same route as that of the Chennai Marathon coming up next weekend. I had not crossed 20k since Brisbane in April. I felt restless right through Saturday (good!) and did not sleep much overnight. I paced myself well and had a few more kms left in me at the finish. I am not sure if I can better this performance next weekend though I initially aspired for a 2 hr finish. Reason being mostly weather oriented - the run starts at 6:30 and the sun would be up and intense by the time we are at the half way mark. Almost all my runs during Week 3 were pretty good....

1. Tuesday, 19th Aug, 8:00 PM, Chennai - 5 km (treadmill)
2. Thursday, 21st Aug, 5:15 AM, Chennai - 10 km
3. Friday, 22nd Aug, 5:15 AM, Chennai - 7.5 km
4. Sunday, 24th Aug, 5:15 AM, Chennai - 21.1 km

I am a bit sore today from the run yesterday. Should be OK for tomorrow morning's run.

Adios.