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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Nike+ Human Race 2009 Run

Impressive organization skill!
Nike apparently had no less than 27 cities participating (more or less) simultaneously in the Nike+ Human Race 2009, a 10k event, on Sat 24 Oct. Looks like Bangalore was the city in India..lucky us!

The race started bang on time - about 3-4 min early in fact..
Saw Sreesanth (the cricketer) among the people flagging us off.

Wanted to run the 10k in an hour or under, which is definitely a challenge for me. Intended to use my Garmoin 305 watch to pace myself correctly.. and guess what. Of course, I left it behind! Driving at 3.20pm when I realized it, I could go back & possibly miss the start or forget it. Well i forgot it...
Instead, I downloaded the MyTracks Google app onto my trusty Android-Google phone & used it instead. Worked out.

So. The race was hard going, but fun, as always. This time I was very focused on my pace etc... haven't got the 'official' results yet (we all wore a timing chip), but according to my 'phone I did complete in about exactly an hour or just a bit over! Lets see...at any rate am happy with my performance..by contrast I took 1:11:20 for the same distance at the Sunfeast 10k in May this year.

Anju Bobby George gave away prizes after... the cool chicks from Golds Gym Mumbai had us perform warm-up & cool-down exercises before & after the race. :-)

Here's a link to a quick article on this event...

Also, we're already in the taper period for the big one - the Bangalore Ultra is up in about 3 weeks. Fingers crossed!