47 kms week ending 5th september with a 7.7 kms on tuesday, 8 on thursday, 17.75 on saturday at aarey forest and 13.34 at borivli national park on sunday. while aarey forest was hot and humid, bnp was pleasant with mild to moderate showers cooling the temperatures much to the liking of runners.
The 1st BNP half marathon was successfully held today, Sunday, 22nd August 2010 inside the Borivli National Park in Borivli, suburbs of Mumbai. More than 260 people had registered for this event, registrations for which were open in June 2010 itself on the basis of an online web based form. The event generated much excitement because after the highly rated Mumbai Marathon being held in January every year, this was the first ever half marathon being held in Mumbai. Morever, since the Mumbai Marathon 2011 registrations opened in mid-July, registrations for this event surged tremendously in the last few days. The event was organized by a runners group called RUN RUN RUN… RUN MUMBAI RUN which was on Runners For Life web platform. It was part of its 1st anniversary celebrations event.
The high number of registrations meant the organizers had to work doubly hard to ensure no glitches in the event and therefore hectic work was going on for the last three-four weeks on various matters inv... Read full entry
Successfully completed a 10K race inside the beautiful IIT Powai campus in Bombay, in a PERSONAL BEST time of 1 hr 3 secs. It was a beautiful day to run with heavy rains interspersed with drizzles throughout the run. The route was very scenic passing through wooded forests, very inviting and alluring lush green playgrounds, Started off at a furious pace for the first 1.5 kms but later slowed to an acceptable pace. The route was a 5 kms loop passing through twice and at about 4 kms and thereafter at 8 kms there were hill climbs, which was taking its toll on the second loop. Started picking up pace after the second monster climb and thereafter sprinted away to a personal best. This is part of the worldwide IIT Alumni organised throughout the world at various places and typically the IITians have devised a complex formula to find out the overall standings based on age, weight & height category. IIT Powai had organised this race very well, there were all facilities like water and electral ... Read full entry
interesting week with two speed workouts - tempo run of 35 minutes on wednesday and fartlek of 10 rounds of 100 metres each on saturday, interspersed with easy run on thursday and long run on sunday. total mileage including the speed workout days - 39 kms. Disapppointed at not doing more on sunday, now for next sunday's i-race at IIT Powai, Bombay.
Ran 39.5 kms this week, including a 19.5 kms run today across half of Mumbai with about 40 odd friends. previously ran three days continuously on wed, thu & fri, logging minor distances of about 6 kms each approx. Took a rest on saturday to conserve energy for the sun run and it paid off very well.
Fantastic run today, we started at 5.45 a.m., while it was humid in Bandra, the moment we crossed Mahim the humidity ceased, sun did not peep out today, except for a few moments when we were reaching mahalakshmi race course, probably to see whether runners were still on the road. Pedder road climb and Kemps Corner flyover were a breeze probably due to the intense workouts we do in Aarey and BNP, crossing into Marine Drive we were into a pleasant surprise. Rain gods showered its blessings on the runners in plenty – running in marine drive in the rains was a dream come true. The entire stretch from Wilsons College to NCPA was the best part of today’s run.
MANY THANKS to Jayati for organizing water & bananas at poddar hospital with her friend Amit who also run with us, to Krishna for arranging tempo with water all throughout the route and for tirelessly going up and down with water for the runners and to Sundaresan for arranging water, bananas & glucose biscuits at the finish point. MA... Read full entry
johnnyk8 says:
Now this sounds like a very organized yet fun even. Glad you enjoyed it, I would love to participate in something like this.
A short running week with only two days running i.e saturday, 9.4 km at aarey and sunday, 11.5 km at marine drive. rested the other days comfortably. humidity on both days tested running. could manage to negotiate the killer hill at aarey in slow pace, but had difficulty in negotiating the humidity and sun on sunday at marine drive.
