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I need a widget that will transfer my thoughts to my blog! Cant believe that its nearly 2 months since I last posted an entry. I have been running, and have published a training plan for Berlin and mentally started training for the marathon... 25 weeks or so instead of my usual 18 week plan. But this hot weather is really taking its toll. I am not enjoying runs anymore, especially the long ones >10km as I find them draining, sapping energy. Even shorter runs, if done >6:30 am tend to be exhausting - rather than energising they are enervating! Anyway, though my blogging has not been regular, my running is another story – except for 6 day break in early April when I was travelling and did not run (which is unusual), I have been putting those runs away.
The ECR No. 9 is the longest run so far in 2009, I did 25km with Venkat. I was done mentally after 21km and wanted to go back to the finish then Venkat, who was running with me right through, said he had never done more than 21km in his life and wanted to aim for 25 - I could not resist being part of his personal historical highlight moment, so did a run-walk with him for another 4km - had to flog him till we did 25! Great.
My team (Srini, Bragadeesh, Deepak) won the “Twist in the Trail” – an event organised by Chennai runners on 1st May. The event took us through streets and sights of Chennai that I would have never imagined setting foot on. It was like a treasure hunt where you keep getting clues in a trivia like manner, only thing is that the questions are all related to historic sites of Chennai. We went through Triplicane, Wallajah, Anna Salai, Fort Station and then a train ride to Triplicane station and then run to the finish. In all I think we would have run-walked 8km. Enjoyed every bit of it. My colleagues from Parry turned out in full force (Gomes, you really did a great job in pulling a team together, besides getting into running shoes yourself after high school!!!). My cousin Arun who rocked up with some of his buddies and a “navigation support” team on bikes! They really seemed to have a rollicking time of it. Thanks guys I hope you all had fun.
I did 16.1km today. After 10km in 1 hour, I slowed down as the heat was getting to me. I took a walk break at 12.5km. I was running out of fuel and the Gatorade in my amphipod + the iso sport drink had gone. Stopped at Vidyuth’s usual potti kadai and got a litre of water then went on to finish 15km in 1:40 and another 10 min to finish off. After the finish I was feeling the all too familiar signs of heat exhaustion… it took me about 20 min to recover and then the pongal vada dosa at Anna University canteen was as usual the well deserved feast after a tough run!
My plans for Berlin are in place. My training is not. An emerging development at work is likely to result in my work peaking in mid Sept and I have grave fears that training for Berlin, running the event and taking 2 weeks off around that time may have to be jettisoned. Am tentative at the moment. Should I just call Berlin 2009 off and run Singapore as usual, when the heat at work will subside and I am more relaxed or should I go through the stress of training, uncertainty and a truncated trip - will it be worth the effort and the money? For now I think I should just focus on getting this month out of the way, doing 6 to 12km runs, then take stock.
I a twit now! So you will get my twitter updates on my blog, even if I am not regularly updating the blog space itself.
Cheers, until till next time!