Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon

My running stuff all laid out the night before.




The lines in front of the loo, the slight nip in the wind probably had all the bladders aching for a leak....
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This is the crowd before the starting line, took me 6 mins to cross the start line from the point where i was starting. Real narrow, more like a 2 lane road.




The Bandra-Worli sea link, in a different view. The sun was just coming up and the mumbai skyline from the sea link was looking good.

The very Idea of running !

It's very hard to understand in the beginning that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.
Dr. George Sheehan

So true. i do get occasional thoughts of why i am being crazy and until that one freakin loud voice hollers back, BECAUSE YOU ARE CRAZY ! now get on with it and finish the damn run, so you can start the next one.

My first 2011 run !

My first run of the new year on 2nd Jan 2011 @ 6.00 AM was a long run from Nehru park to India Gate and back , a loop of about 16 km, which I made 17 km because i got lost !

Here's the 2 pics i took from my phone :

avial nada nada new

An awesome Malyali rock and fantastic head banging !

The video is simple and amazing.

Now... Forever

"I guess that’s all forever is. Just one long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now."

Nicholas Evans in The Horse Whisperer

The Mumbai half marathon 2011

The Mumbai Half route for Jan 16th 2011 :

http://www.procamrunning.in/img/hmar_route.jpg

Goodie International introduction ver 108

The animated introduction to Goodie international !

Made online with a website called xtranormal.

Take a peek.