First Marathon

I AM GOING FOR FINISHING A MARATHON - MY FIRST ONE - ON 22ND AUG 2008!!!

My fitness activities over the next few months will be aimed towards preparing myself for this marathon and successfully completing it.

I have created a new blog - FIRST26.2 - to record these activities. This blog will be inactive till I complete the first marathon!

Come on over to my OTHER BLOG!!

30 minute running in Liberty State Park

Ran for 30 minutes today morning in Liberty State Park on the waterfront. First time I was an a trial run outdoors this Summer! Spent around 15 minutes afterwards stretching using the various ParCircuit installations.

This is the first run in my effort to prepare for a Marathon. The Healthy Kidney 10K this Saturday will be the perfect long-distance run for my preparations.

The previous post is almost two months old; while I haven't been running regularly in the past two months, I have run a few times and twice in organized races. The two races are the following:

• Scotland Run 10K in Central Park on Sunday Mar 30th 2008. I took tons of photos from the event to give some idea to my friends back home about the way a running event is conducted in NY.
• Prakash Farewell 5K in JP Park, Bangalore on Sunday Apr 20th 2008. I came in last in this race, as the gracious host!

When I was in Bangalore, I ran a few times in the JP Park, in addition to the participation in the 5K run.