There was a half marathon (21.097Kms) on the 18th Dec 2005 organised in bangalore. the last marthon was about 6 months back then me and my roomie Harsha had ran 7Kms and boy that was a great experience. I had totally screwed up my left leg. was not able to walk for about a week terrific pain. this time we did some proper training in the gym and on roads. we were runing for an hour every day in the gym for the about four weeks. on one saturday we decided that we should run on the road as the conditions in the gym and on the road out in the open are diferent. we chose one saturday two weeks behind the D-day and ran 14kms . it was great we did have some time here we felt no way not possible but had to push ourselves to finish the run. it was great and we knew we cud do more. this was a major booster to our confidence. on the D-day there were about 200+ ppl to run for th ehalf marathom...was a little surprised that there were so many. ppl from all age were there to run the race. the start was from Kanteerva Stadium and the route was like this
Kanteerva Stadium -> Central Library->Vidhan Soudha->Rajbhavan ->Golf COurse -> Windsor Manor Bridge-> Palace Grounds-> Mekhri Circle-> CBI->Hebbal Flyover and the same route was traced back to the finish line.
The firat half of the journey was pretty fast 1Hr 05Min to reach Hebbal flyover, then it was like when where is the finish line. things were geting tough for me. i was more worried about Windsor Manor Bridge that has a good steep to climb................well some how i reached the starting pf the bridge and decided to walk drinking water. after the climb i started runing but it was turning out to be very difficult. the last 4kms to the finish line was horrible......my legs had reache their ultimate point of not caryying me anymore. i started shuffling between walking and running. some how i reached the finish line. harsha had already finished the race. Kishore and Chandu were there to shoot me with their camera in the finish line. it was a reat feeling . i took 2Hrs 38Min to finish where as Harsha took 2Hrs 08Min to finish the race. later i just wanted to eat and drink and eat and drink and dat is wat i did.
but i am disappointed that a Sheik friend of mine is not ready to accept that i ran that distance.fat ass is jeaoulous of me runing so much......he is a well acclaied sportsperson look at him and u will have a second thought he he he he he h eh eh eh eh
