I want to be healthy and fit

You might have read my Half-marathon race report in the earlier post. Few days after the event the organisers published data from the race and I got more details about the event. Included in this post are my some statistics from the website and some other statistics that I could calculate.

So I’m all excited, motivated and ready for the race tomorrow!!

I just picked up my bib number from the marathon expo and the mood there was electric. People were all charged up and discussing their last minute plans.

Am I nervous? Heck yeah! I am certainly looking forward to running this coming Sunday but that is also making me somewhat nervous. Probably because its my first time running in such an event and also because I have never actually run that long in my practise sessions. So for the last three to four days, I am going to …

I anticipate having a knee problem in the future I ran 18km this morning and it feels great. I wanted to do 20 but that would have been an excessive gain (60%) since the last run. At the end of it, I am not mentally or physically exhausted, but my right knee does feel fatigued. Origin of the problem with …

Distance running is quite solitary and its important to keep one from getting bored I was supposed to run 15km today but I got bored after 10km and returned home after 12.5km (1.25 hours at a speed of 10kmph). I won’t to go into excuses (okay, it was the same old route, the weather was colder and there were no …

Slowly but surely getting there! So its been a while since I updated the blog regarding my half-marathon training. I was pleasantly surprised that people were enquiring about it offline since they didn’t see any updates on the blog. How nice is that? For the last 3 weeks I have been religiously following a training plan and that’s good news …

Finally settled on a training regime that seems to work. I’ve been struggling, for almost a month now, with the training schedules. It never seems to work because being summer, there is always something else (more fun) to do, viz camping, street festivals, cycling or family/friend visits. So after factoring all those unpredictable clauses, I think I was able to …