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Monday, June 01, 2009

At the Bangalore World Sunfeast 10k 2009


It was great running the Sunfeast 10k this year (missed it last year due to my ITB injury).

Getting there though, is another story.
My fault- Sheroy (my 5 yr old) & I started out late (abt 7.10am) and reached Nad's (my Dad's place, which is near the stadium) without hassle in a few minuted. He then drove us... Man, all the roads were blocked! We circled halfway-around Bangalore (even reaching the beginning of Old Madras Road!), before we could somehow loop back..by now it was 8am. I thought 'forget it, am missing this one'. But somehow, we did reach UB City quickly; I literally ran to the starting gate (mine was G6). There was a huge crowd of runners still waiting to get onto the track and start, so I merged in and made it!



The run was fun.
Good water stations interspersed along the route. Saw my family near the Minsk Square junction... Enjoyed myself!

By the next day, the rankings for those with timing chips were up (good work!).
I came in 1145 out of 1786. Oh God! Bad! But, in my defence (it's a poor one, i know), I never claimed to be fast... (Well, also, the actual number of people who ran the Open 10k race including those without timing chips, was about 8000; whew. Of course, many without a timing chip could have done better!).

Official Timing (chip timing) for myself (bib # 1966).

Looking foward to next year's running, hopefully improve my timing...

You know, that's what i really like about running -- guys like me (non-athletes), we can happily compete with ourselves. No pressure.