Thursday, July 16, 2009
Running goal: Delhi half-marathon under two hours
Almost immediately after the Mumbai marathon in January, running lay abandoned. It had become too difficult to go out running, and thanks to lack of any exercise, the paunch has come back to its glorious heights.
Well, time to pick up the running shoes again, 'cause its just three and a half months left to the Delhi half-marathon, which, apparently will be held on 1st of November (info thanks to Tanvir Kazmi, who's been doing awesome work on promoting running online). So what's the target? As the title says, under two hours. Given that I ran my first ever half-marathon this year itself, and that too just under two and a half hours, its a nearly impossible task. But I will give it my best shot -- atleast I should be able to shed some pounds. By the way, I did get around to running a couple of times a few days back, but have relapsed into laziness since then. Hopefully, this post will give me some impetus to start again.
After the Delhi half-marathon, I'll be running the half in Mumbai again next year (registrations for the Mumbai marathon are already open, btw, and the places fill out very quick; so if you are planning to run, register now!). This year was great fun, hopefully next year will be too.
Well, time to pick up the running shoes again, 'cause its just three and a half months left to the Delhi half-marathon, which, apparently will be held on 1st of November (info thanks to Tanvir Kazmi, who's been doing awesome work on promoting running online). So what's the target? As the title says, under two hours. Given that I ran my first ever half-marathon this year itself, and that too just under two and a half hours, its a nearly impossible task. But I will give it my best shot -- atleast I should be able to shed some pounds. By the way, I did get around to running a couple of times a few days back, but have relapsed into laziness since then. Hopefully, this post will give me some impetus to start again.
After the Delhi half-marathon, I'll be running the half in Mumbai again next year (registrations for the Mumbai marathon are already open, btw, and the places fill out very quick; so if you are planning to run, register now!). This year was great fun, hopefully next year will be too.
Labels: half-marathon, marathon
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Mumbai Marathon 2009: Results
Update: Updated the links to ChampionChip site. The old links don't work anymore. Also updated my net finish time and rank.
Chip timer results for the Mumbai marathon 2009 are out. See yours at ChampionChip UAE:
As for me, I finished on rank967 961 for the half-marathon, with a gross time* of 2:37:32. Since I started the race around 7 9 minutes after the official start time, the net time** should be around 2:30 was 2:28:35. That's what the soft target for my first race was (the real, hard target being just to finish the damn race). So I am satisfied with the result. (But, as I would cover in another blog post, things could have been better...)
Notes:
* Gross time: the time period beginning from the start of the race (i.e. when the elite runners cross the start line) till the time you cross the finish line. This is considered your "official" time for a race.
** Net time: the time period beginning from the instant you cross the starting line till you cross the finish line. This is your actual time for the race.
Chip timer results for the Mumbai marathon 2009 are out. See yours at ChampionChip UAE:
As for me, I finished on rank
Notes:
* Gross time: the time period beginning from the start of the race (i.e. when the elite runners cross the start line) till the time you cross the finish line. This is considered your "official" time for a race.
** Net time: the time period beginning from the instant you cross the starting line till you cross the finish line. This is your actual time for the race.
Labels: half-marathon, marathon
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