Sunday's Long run at Nehru Stadium

23 Sept, Zola (bhaiya's daughter) turned 9 and bhaiya want to celebrate her birthday with a 90Km run. I thought its better to go along and take benefit from his company, these runs are very informational as bhaiya is moving wikipedia of running.
This time we plan to run from 5am to 7pm and bhaiya had given me target of 70K, the max i did before was 52K. But i woke up late at around 4:25 found bhaiya calling me, all this because of India vs Australia T20 semi-final. We went on mine motor bike to Nehru Stadium and manage to start the race by 7 only.
This is the first time i am running with bhaiya in scorching sun. We planned to run of our own. I started with 3-1 strategy followed by 2-1 and 1-1. Bhaiya did 21K in a stretch followed by 2-1 startegy. Raj ji(fellow runner) and Adhiraj (addidas guy) came to see us. I got cramp in mine right calf because of dehydration at around 50K and manage to do 60K some how(9hrs 30min), I was limping all the way in last 7-8 k. Bhaiya did 90Km in 12hrs 30min easily.
After finishing the race we picked our stuff and went to an eating joint in R.K Puram. We had masala dosa with lot of coconut chutney there. After finishing our meal we went straight to Bhaiya's place to wish Zola. Its 10pm and zola was still waiting for her papa. She cut the cake and I had a big piece of choclate cake before leaving bhaiya's place.

I like the way bhaiya celebrated zola's birthday.

Week 16th to 22nd Sept

Last week i missed Thursday, Friday because of mine thesis report submission and also I felt little pain in mine left thigh, did only 4 sessions
1. 30K running (Sunday)
2. 8K running (Monday)
3. 8K running (Tuesday)
4. 6K Hill Training (Wednesday)

Week 10th to 15th Sept(Dull Week)

Last week was kinda dull week for running, missed long run/Noida half marathon on sunday and didn't did much in the week too all in all have 4 sessions

1. 21k running (Monday)
2. 9k running (tuesday)
3. 6k running (wednesday)
4. 21k cycling (thursday)

Missed Noida half marathon

I missed Noida half marathon because of mine friend's wedding, but bhaiya participated along with Raj ji, Bhaiya did it in 1hr 46 min ranking 80 and Raj ji did it in 2hrs 10min he got cramp.

Bhaiya did a pre marathon run of 8k to the start line from the place he stayed on saturday night.

Week 2nd to 8th Sept

This week I went to Chandigarh on long awaiting Sarin bhaaji's wedding. Just did four work-outs

Sunday-52kms
Monday- 9kms
Tuesday-6kms
Wednesday- 21kms

will post some wedding snaps soon

Delayed start

This time only me and bhaiya planned our long run from 0000hrs to 1000hrs on saturday night. I reached our meeting point by 2330hrs and waited there for bhaiya till 0025hrs but he didn't turn up. Early in the day bhaiya called up and confirmed that he will reach at our meeting point along with his cousin by 2330hrs, so that we can start by 0000hrs, and I didn't bother to call bhaiya before leaving mine place and didn't carry mine phone either :(.

I left the meeting point by 0025hrs and came back to mine place with heavy heart thinking bhaiya must have sent some message on mine cell. I found bhaiya's missed call by 2330hrs, he generally do this before leaving his place. I called up bhaiya and found that he just reached there. By the time i came back to our meeting point its 0045hrs. Sandeep (Bhaiya's cousin) came just to see us running. We decided that we will do a 7hrs practice from 0100hrs-0800hrs.

Finally we started by 0100hrs and this time we started with 1-1,2 startegy ( 1 run 1 walk and 2 consecutive runs after every hour). Every thing went as planned and we finished our run with 52kms in 6:58:28 with 7kms in last 53 mins with five running and 2 walking kms. While running bhaiya told me his plan for next year, his run with Gunjan earlier in the day and motivating stories of Yiannis Kouros (Running God) runs.

All in all its a nice session without much effort though I miss Devinder's jokes and Raj ji's company.