After running the Navy marathon in the third week of November, I had to tend to my IT Band issue. Did not want to stretch myself and hence did not go for any run. Got the foam roller as advised by Dr. Bhoomi Gala, my physio and worked on it. Also, had a black toe due to "runners toe" and the toe pained for a couple of weeks. I had signed for this run long back and as it was a month after Navy run, was fine.
The run was to start at 6 am - I was awake early and left home at 4.45 am. Around 5 am, I was at the venue. 21Km run was to start at 5.30 am and the runners were warming up. As I had registered for a 10 km run, I had some more time and did the warm up with them. Did lots of warm up and was ready to run. As I was coming back from injury, was a bit worried.
Met my colleague Pravin Kumar, who was to run 21Km - after wishing him well, I again stretched myself. The run started and it was smooth. I could see that I was getting into a nice rhythm. However, the worry of injury was at the back of my mind and hence I did not push myself.
Ran the distance of 10 Kms (2 loops in flat BKC) in 1:18:06, the slowest of my four 10Km runs. But, the satisfaction was that I did it and finished without any threat of injury.
One of the highlights was that I was able to maintain consistency in my timings since the 4th Km. This was the consistency I was hoping and was glad to achieve the same. I felt confident that I can shave off atleast 3-4 minutes of the total time if I could give my best.
Icing on the cake was having foot massage from visually challenged men at the end of the race. Felt good that I was doing something for them and also the massage was good.
Having signed up two 21 Kms runs in January (Powai run and the Tata Mumbai Marathon), decided to focus on training for the same and not register for any other run.
Hope to complete more runs in 2020.
The run was to start at 6 am - I was awake early and left home at 4.45 am. Around 5 am, I was at the venue. 21Km run was to start at 5.30 am and the runners were warming up. As I had registered for a 10 km run, I had some more time and did the warm up with them. Did lots of warm up and was ready to run. As I was coming back from injury, was a bit worried.
Met my colleague Pravin Kumar, who was to run 21Km - after wishing him well, I again stretched myself. The run started and it was smooth. I could see that I was getting into a nice rhythm. However, the worry of injury was at the back of my mind and hence I did not push myself.
Ran the distance of 10 Kms (2 loops in flat BKC) in 1:18:06, the slowest of my four 10Km runs. But, the satisfaction was that I did it and finished without any threat of injury.
One of the highlights was that I was able to maintain consistency in my timings since the 4th Km. This was the consistency I was hoping and was glad to achieve the same. I felt confident that I can shave off atleast 3-4 minutes of the total time if I could give my best.
Icing on the cake was having foot massage from visually challenged men at the end of the race. Felt good that I was doing something for them and also the massage was good.
Having signed up two 21 Kms runs in January (Powai run and the Tata Mumbai Marathon), decided to focus on training for the same and not register for any other run.
Hope to complete more runs in 2020.
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