Post the recent success at Sunfeast world 10k run - I am tempted to blog my experience.
Through out my school and college days, I was active in sports. I would take part in almost all running events and have won several prizes at school level competitions. I gave up running in 1993, I kind of retired from athletics.
Many many years later, in 2009 - It was the paranoia of falling victim to lifestyle related diseases like Diabetes or BP or something else that I began doing some morning walks in the nearby parks. Serious running did not occur to me until Shobana bought a one year membership at a local sports club that had a Cardio, Gym. Swimming pool, Tennis courts and other sports facilities. She prodded me take up some sports activity and I choose the Cardio gym.
I began by doing some very mild cycling & cross trainer. Tread mill started a few weeks later at speeds of 3 and would gradually scale it upto 9. When I got comfortable with these levels - I pushed myself to the next level which was starting TM at 3 with inclination of 15 and reducing inclination and increasing speed at the end of every minute. I started enjoying these kinds of experiments. My family and friends appreciated the change (fat loss) in me, this led to increase in efforts to lose further fat. Virtuous circle - I must say.
During these times I choose 4 activities - Jogging (road) / Yoga / Swimming / Gym (TM + weights). I promised myself that I would do at-least one of activities every day and all four on the weekends. I did follow this strictly and also gave up sugar and sweets for 6 months. My weight dropped by over 10kgs and I was overflowing with energy. Jan 2010 - I started training for 10k run, on an average I clocked 55+minutes on the road and less than 50 minutes on the TM. I was all set for the Sunfeast 10k run.
23 May 2010 - Sunfeast world 10k - I finished the run in 58.10 min, with a ranking of 626 out of nearly 7000 runners
Feeling very excited and sense of achievement.
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