post mortem

I guess every major activity deserves one, major atleast in the eyes of the person concerned. I must confess I did think a lot about the run in the couple of days immediately following the run and the conclusions are predictable; ills that ail the first time participant in a major run.

1) I started too fast. There was a little 'twitter' inside my head which was telling me to take it a tad easy in the beginning, but as I saw a lot of runners passing me, as its wont to happen in an event participated in by thousands, the temptation was just too great to resist.

2) I could have conditioned myself better for the last 5 kms or so of the run. This I thought became really critical though a lot of what I had read during training seemed to suggest that its not actually important to run the entire distance planned in training. Well, time to customize!

3) I should have pushed myself harder while training. This must be a common refrain from almost anybody who takes this pastime too seriously!

Thats about it, no use fretting about it too much. After all now that one has another excuse to invite those aches and early mornings back again: The Bombay Marathon.