Podium in Edgeverve 5K run

Standing tall at first place in Infosys EdgeVerve run happened on 18th oct'17 inside Infy Blr

Unofficial, overall podium 😊
5k, 22min, 45sec
As race was only for Edgeverve people...

Some say you need a big event to show your potential, some say show your potential whenever you can. And, I believe in showing my potential whenever I hit the road. Though we were not entitled for title, still we ran and aced it. You might say that few fastest runners didn't run due to event being untitled for Infoscians, so I came first. Whatever may be the reason we should never fear to celebrate our every little success. 

Another doubt raised by some veterans is that why I am putting 5k as distance is not exactly 5k. To counter that I say that the organizers call it 5k even they know that distance is not exactly 5k. So, I must follow the organizers' foot steps. 

Coming from an arduous Bangalore Marathon where I ran Full with good timings of 4:23, getting this pace is not a sort of achievement. Now, I believe, If I follow the same rigorous practice regime, I will soon be featured among winners in big races. Thank you Infy Happyfeet, captain Sampath and Aakriti for your selfless training and service. 

#edgeverve #run #5k #podiums #outliers#InfyHappyFeet #InfyDiaries #BeMoreBangalore — with Ajay Kumar N at Infosys Campus Bangalore India.

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First Full Marathon (42.195kms)

When cause is big, preparation is apt and time is ripe you hit the bull's eye. Today, I finally completed my maiden full marathon with a timing of 4hrs 23mins.

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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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SPBM Training Run Nandi Hills - 20k

As they say the higher you go the cooler you feel. Similarly, an arduous uphill offers easy downhill. However, you need more power to contain yourself while you run downhill.

SPBM training run 3 brought us the tough Nandi hills. Thanks to NEB sports, one of my travel bucket lists got checked today. That too in sweats in the cold Nandi hills' foggy winding roads.😊

Not to surprize, the ultra cool challenging track helped me achieve a PB for me in 20k distance.

Total time: 1:52:36, 20k.

Yes, and the many hairpin bends confused my smart Tomtom that measured only 19k.

It was a good practice run for the next week's Mysore marathon. It posed a good challenge, enabling me to prepare better and be ready for the royal city.

Happy Challenging!

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First Title - InfyRun Team Relay 2017

Then, I focused on academics for career reasons, I went places. Now, I'm focusing on sports for health reasons, I'm running over places.

Ladies and gentlemen, today my team comprising Asha, Abhay, Premkhumarand myself secured second place in 2500 × 4 Team Relay in Infosys Run 2017.

Excitement apart, this was my first podium finish in a corporate running event.

I asked my photographer to get me a matrimonial pic and the result is this. 😂😂

Total time: 10k, 45:50min
Personal pace: 4:27m/k

An exhilarating start of a copacetic corporate life - all credit goes to our captains Sampath and Aakriti for breaking our shells of inhibitions.

#BeMore #Infosys #InfosysRun2017 #TeamRelay #InfyDiaries #InfyRun #BeMoreBangalore #HappyFeet

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SPBM Bangalore 10k Challenge 2017

Usain Bolt moment, final 300m sprint. 😊
Max pace: 4.06min/km
49.06min/10k
#Bengaluru10k2017

You are no more a recreational athlete when you do 60km Cycling one day and a sub 50min running the next day.

Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for a new Professional Athlete in the town.

Thank you Sampath Kumar S, Aakriti Verma and Gangadhar Prasad for sculpting me in every possible way.

It's time to celebrate.
Cheers!
Flying Mithilesh

#Bangalore10k2017 #HappyFeet #Run4Life

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Anandyana 10k run, a gospels for runners

With great Bobby and Santhosh

Another Sunday, another run and I had a healing fun. This was special run as it was best organized, with toughest terrain, happened under clowdy, chilling, heavenly weather. And I flew with my fever.👣🏃

Run started at 6:26 pm on jammed packed track, had runners of all age groups, came from all the corners of Bangalore. The volunteers were competing with runners while cheering. At every station, I saw volunteers on their toes with water and bannana in their hands, clapping and shouting, " Bravo! Just few stations more." Literally they were transfering their energy to us. 👍✊🏃

I paced beautifully amongst colourful crowd. Initial 2k, took my 9 minutes,

5k 27min. After 5k, I started shivering and first time I realized that I was ill. I brought my pace down, walked for few meters. While in pain, I saw many kids, ladies pacing me behind whom I left kilometers behind minutes back.  After 6k, I recollected my energy and started accelerating. In my last 2k lap, I was on the top of my pain and I was flying.✌👏🚀

My final reading on runkeeper is as under:

The more I say, would be less for the host place Sneha Care home, a Jesus orchid, Lord's gospels in Sarjapur Bangalore. The place lies in the country side of Bangalore which still proudly owns it's mystic jungles.

The roller coster run ended with healthy and delicious breakfast followed by participatory dance session under the spell of local band of runners. Yo man our hips were lieing on the tunes of 'Hotel California'. How can I forget the closing Kanada song 'Santosh Anna' that moved us in respect for the great Santhosh

The musical cool down was miles soothening than Sampath's plank position and Aakriti's commondo crawl. 😂😇😀

We all settled down by the cooling of dance and soothing of music. And I carried home some lessons:

1) Get enough sleep before run

2) Get medication days before run, don't worry antibiotics will not eat up your stamina

3) Bring along your buddies, great company will reduce the distance by miles

How can I gorget the great Santosh who today completed his maiden 10k sub 55.👍

Adios till my next flight on the road,

Ascending Mithilesh.

(Written in the cozy ambience of Kempegoda International Airport on my way to Delhi)

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My first quarter as runner

It all started when it was discovered that my life was imbalanced on certain metabolic quotients. To fight with the new disproportion, I had to change my lifestyle by infusing physical activity in it. I started with jogging, brisk walking, Yoga and ended with running.

Running is outshining the real fighter in me. So far my score on runkeeper app for this quarter (Feb 2016 -May 2016) is about 400 km.

In my first three months as runner, I have completed more than twenty 10k runs, including 2 official 10k events. My personal best is 10k in 54.5 minutes. I try to run a 10k on each alternate day and nimbly participate in any running event happening in the city on weekends.

Earlier in 2014, I felt the same zeal and fire within me, when I started rigorous gym and swimming that continued for 10 months and discontinued due to the role and location change. This time, it's different. It is in the open and on the ground. Last time, I was gaining muscles and abs and this time, I am containing my muscles and fats.

Last week, one of my office colleague while staring at my ID card, asked, "When did you get this photograph clicked?" I replied, "this is one year younger me". He smiled, "It looks like 5 years older you. :) "

My meteoric rise as runner would not have been possible without unflinching support that I get in Infy Running club, HappyFeet. Specially my mentor Sampath and co-runners Aakriti, Hari, Santhosh etc. Every day when I walk in the ground, I meet my 15 years of me, Argo and Industrious.

Most of my new buddies at Infosys often ask, "How do you manage time to do so many things, so efficiently?" Most people, don't know that this is my second life, I am doing everything again in my life. And that too starting over from a startup bed. So, I know what not to do better than most of the people I am seeing these days.

On the same lines, my emotional connections with my past setbacks helps me conquer physical pain on the tracks.

The rediscovery and conquering have just started in my late 30s and that shall continue till the day I play with my grandchildren.

Adios
Flying Mithilesh.

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