Physiotherapist by day and runner at night.

Radhe. .. Radhe. .. Bankey Biharilal ki. .. jaiho.         BOTTOM LINE IS VERY CLEAR: This blog is more on travel then a good marathon memory. Plans were made well in advance, as usual it will be the mixture of Marathon and leisure. Friday takeoff- BIB collection same day, Saturday lunch and visit nearby places sleep by 8:30 pm. Sunday race - visit nearby places - Monday return. Four days three nights plans, wife wished to see Tajmehal and I was more inclined for divine trip, so sketched for Mathura and Vrindavan on the way to Taj. In preparation for the race I was quite confident that in any given day I can do a good marathon. Simple plans were drafted 2 months well in advance. *Weekly mileage 65-70km as Coaches plan. * Increase fat free mass * reduce fat mass * twice SnC *maintain body wt 59.9kg. One day CrossFit.  Except boosting immune system and maintain weekly mileage, all the other marathon parameter markers for the good race were achieved. But in ve...

  CHENNAI MARATHON, 8th January 2023. Ran many races over the years but this race was strangely fantastic. Pre-decided the race pace for 20 miler at 2hr 15 minutes that is 4 minutes 12 sec - 4 minutes 15 sec. As much as I tried to control the pace, I felt a pleasantly strong force pulling me forward. It has never happened before. Like I was being pulled to land at Rameshwaram.  In preparation for the 20 Miler from the previous run at Adani Ahmedabad Marathon in the first week of December,  I took 7 to 10 days rest with only yoga and stretching exercises. Mission of this month's training was to build speed Considering average weekly mileage recovery. I also did not want to compromise family time which is very important to me.  Race- Holiday- Rejuvenate    I always travel with my family for outstation races. This time, my mother in law traveled to Chennai with my wife and kid in Vande Bharat express train and we had a great train journey.  During childho...

AHMEDABAD MARATHON Ch1. Night before the Race day: Saturday night, @9:30pm; It's half past 9pm, tomorrow is the Adani Marathon, my mind was still wondering what I am supposed to do?! How do I plan my race and race pace?! Rewriting the pace and target plan is that viable?, I wasn’t sure about that. These thoughts will flood when you are with the bunch of runners who always motivate you.  As I Am trained to fix the target and go for it, training has been very strong and during tapering I fixed the target for 3:08 hours, that's @ 4:25 minutes/km for the Ahmedabad Marathon. Running mates evoked the potentials in me, made me rethink about rewriting the race pace strategies for sub3!!  Decided 2 plans, Plan A - go for it sub3: start @4:20 pace and give best whatever it takes later.                               Plan B - run start @ 4:25 pace the...

                                                                                                     13Sep22,   BLOG 3: CHASING THE MAGICAL NUMBER 4:15 !!                                                        Considering the greatest milestone for the year 2022 was to achieve my best 10 K in 40 minutes at Bengaluru 10k challenge. Bengaluru...