Hi....
Below is my Running details as per Garmin.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/49573500?sms_ss=email
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.
It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or gazelle - when the sun comes up, you'd better be running,
Thats what I am doing...no matter how fast or slow, good or bad, tired or Fresh, Sleep late or early, NO MATTER WHAT...on SUNDAYS-----I AM JUST GOING TO GET UP and RUNNNNN!!!!!
I can easily say that now I AM ADDICTED TO RUNNING..and not just running, by running, i mean LONG DISTANCES......
I have already registered for Goa Half Marathon which is on 19th December and now planning to register for Airtel Half Marathon on 21st November in Delhi, provided i get some company to Run along....
Anyways Back to the Run....
I was going to do 18 km and was very focussed to do this run..right from the beginning..
originally i was supposed to do the same Kalina loop which i did last Sunday..however, i wanted to meet my Cricket Group with whom i play regularly in Kandivali on Sunday, so decided to run that way and meet them....
however, turned up running 1 km short as i felt if i had ran more, i could have injured myself by overrunning...
It was a very tough run for me for many reasons..
1. for the first 9 kms i was running with a Backpack filled with Water and that slowed me down.more then slowing me down, it warmed up by Body temparature to a great extent which was unwanted and i then realised that covering the entire 18k would be difficult with that backpack..so i called my friends who met halfway and took the backpack away..
2. the slopes on the highway..it was more like a HILL TRAINING then a normal flat run of 18 km...
It was too tough to run this Sunday as the Sun came shining by 645 itself...
i started my run by 544am and was already on the highway by 555am...after 50 minutes of nice running in the dark, the sun came and it was killing..the temparatures shot up and i was finding myself in the middle of nowhere....
to add to the woes of the heat and tiredness, my Shuffle was stopped working...and hence was running without any music..i generally have all my favourite songs on my shuffle when running, so whenever i feel like giving up, i just listen to a nice peppy number to charge me up.
Upto Jogeshwari, it was a easy jog for me and was very comfortable with the same...however the toughest distance was from Jogeshwari to Malad as it was kind of uphill task...and from Malad to Kandivali was comparatively easy as it was going downhill....
Hope i am well prepared for the next LONG RUN...
Next Sunday, i shall be trying to run 21km...and if i do run 21 km...by 1st target is to better last year marathons timing...
my last years timing was 2 hours 22 minutes....if i can better that off....its going to be a great achievement for me....
LETS HOPE I MAKE IT...
This week i am going to only concentrate on Running with Speed...will try to improve speed for this wednesday run as well...lets see how well i do....;-)
as i want to do 10 km under an hour or so.....
Bye for now....
Regards
Pratik
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