Wednesday night long run..

After canceling our last 2 training sessions, finally the much awaited Wednesday arrived. Initially the plan was to run 9 hrs by me and Arun ji (I call him Bhaiya), But on tuesday another fellow runner Devinder also want to come for race and on race day Raj Singh ji(our youngest group member) came with his running apparel at work and wanted to participate in the trainning session.

Bhaiya, Devinder and Raj ji worked nearby so they planned to come to Bij Vasan train station and from there Its mine duty to pick them up (on mine bike :)). On the way to pick them from train station i drop mine cell phone in Bij Vasan village, but i was very lucky to find it back when i see a little boy picked it from ground and put in his pocket. I took this thing positively that today is mine day(as getting back a lost cell phone is a rare event on that busy road). I got call from bhaiya that there were already at train station and before ending the call i reached the spot.

We bought some fruits for our night run and then we were off to mine(on my poor motor-bike). Bhaiya prepared electrol-water and Rahul (mine Room-mate) helped us all to take the stuff to our running site. We had marked a 1 km stretch on a lonely road and our long runs are running to and fro on that marked road only.

Finally its 8:40pm and we were all set for our night run, plan was to run till 5:40 am. This is the first time Bhaiya asked us to run at your own speed from the beginning. We all started together and Bhaiya had taken lead in first 200mts but we three ran together. Plan in mine mind was to run first 10km on mine easy run pace and then run with 4-1 strategy (4kms run and 1km walk). So I took mine first walk after finishing 14 km, Raj ji and Devinder joined me and there only i told them mine startegy. Every thing was going on good until in our 18km-19km running round Devinder says enough, he was suffering from severe pain in his hips. We didn't(Me and Raj ji ) stop for him. As bhaiya is running on his own, me and Raj ji were running at same speed to stay together and motivate each other. After a while we changed our strategy to 2-1 strategy. Its round number 30 if i remember correctly when Raj ji decided to stop. So by midnight with two wickets down only me and Arun bhaiya were on track. I was struggling with mine running-walking more frequently and all mine strategies went haywire. Earlier I planned to complete 42 kms in 5hrs but i was able to manage 39 only. At that time i wanted to stop running but bhaiya told me to finish 6hrs run and do 47kms. I tried hard but i was able to finish 46kms only in 5hrs 58 mins. I did mine last one km(47th round) walking and end up with 6hrs 11min for 47km.

I have nothing to feel happy except that extra km i did, mine previous best was 46kms in 5:59 mins. We all stayed at mine place together for some time and then back to our routine jobs....
It was a night with a big half-moon. I enjoyed company of Devinder, Raj ji and Bhaiya.
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