HM at Spirit of Wipro 2017

Today in Spirit of Wipro 2017, I raced in HM(21k) with a slight improvement of a minute in PB timings. Though, I didn't maintain my beginning pace throughout the course. This demands more strength and that's hard to accrue.

Awesome run on 'Nice' road. Drizzling on the concrete road was bliss.

Nice to see sea of happy new faces in 5k and 10k tracks. As they said, there were around 13 thousands participants who ran today. This running clan is expanding exponentially.

As usual I have no complain from #SOW2017 organizers and Wipro Ltd.except medal and breakfast which was not there. 😊

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Mysuru Marathon 2017 - HM

In your expatriate life, you learn to appreciate 'Go your own way alone' ( Ekla Chalo Re) philosophy. However, today I found a better contradiction to this philosophy when my dad joined me in the one of my competitive races. He specifically travelled to Mysuru from Patna to cheer me up. As far as I remembered, he joined me last time in my engineering counselling some 12 years back.

Today, I participated in the 7th edition of Celebration Mysuru Half Marathon 2017. My first attempt in the royal city helped me get my PB in Half Marathon. However, 1:56hr/21.2k pace is much slower than the target. Pace was dampen by under recovery ankle injury, unexpected 6k lake side slippery trail, and 
unknown Mysuru elevated routes.

Excuses apart, races are won against greater odds. 😊

Thanks Dad for joining me!
Thanks #HappyFeet(Sampath&Aakriti), Abhay and #InfosysMysore for improving and hosting me. This event will stay forever in my memory.

#CelebrationMysuruHalfMarathon #21k #PB

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