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Monday, March 08, 2010

International Women's Day Run : 7 Mar 2010

Ran for Women today! :-)
Dilshad wanted to come along for the 5k run, but could not make it thanks to catering to the needs of a certain 5.5 month-old person named Danesh (and his elder brother Sheroy!).

I ran from home to Ulsoor Lake where the run started (dist of about 2.25km), ran 5k around the lake and back home for a total of about 10km. A nice run, lots of ladies and kids as well. Was fun. Unfortunately, knees are still hurting (in spite of starting hip strengthening exercises about a week back - yeah, i'll give it more time & cut down on mileage).

Details from the Contours International website here.

Strides of Hope

The fortnightly RFL run this time (Sun 21 Feb 2010) was at EGL. Again. A favourite location for me though, no complaints.

What made this run very special, is that we were all a small part of a pretty amazing and awe-inspiring event: Strides of Hope:
an extraordinary gentleman, Santhosh Padmanabhan, was running for 48 hours, raising funds and awareness for "Team ASHA". Wow.
(Click here to see Santhosh's blog).

Santhosh Padmanabhan


Santhosh started his incredible ultra at 4pm on Friday. Obviously, a lot of supporters/volunteers/Team ASHA members ran with him, in a kind of morally supportive relay, throughout. Sunday morning, it was our turn, through the good offices of RFL.

Incidentally, Santhosh ran an awesome 156 kilometres (nearly 100 miles), at the Bangalore Ultra 2008 event.



Also, I ran a half marathon distance (21.1k) in a PB (personal best_ for me: 02:24:15. Another reason to be happy...

The certificate from the 'Strides Of Hope' event.

RFL's Neat Bookmark-cum-Marathon-Checklist

While in Mumbai for the marathon (17Jan2010), at the expo I spotted the Runners For Life, Bangalore stall.
Arvind Bharati was there; was fun meeting up.

I picked up a couple of cute, and very useful!, bookmarks that RFL produced - one side has a "Check list" for runners (see pic below).


 

Click pic to zoom in.

In fact, the checklist really helped - I took along my water bottle (the red Kingfisher one provided) and a hanky for the full marathon, which turned out to be a really good idea.