chugging along

I was not as intense in my preparation for the SCMM as I was for the Delhi run. Just managed to put in enough time on the road to stay in shape. With my brother visiting me in Mumbai it was again a question of finding time which was difficult. But one positive outcome from a running point of view was that the opportunity to do a couple of training runs on Marine Drive stared me in the face and I was really glad...the stretch along the Arabian Sea coast right up to Malabar hill is simply awesome and anybody looking for some motivation to start running need not look further than this place.

I visited Calcutta a day after Christmas and spent a fortnight at home. I had nothing but training and relaxing in mind during the time. The weather was a complete change of scene though as the city was facing one of the coldest winter in a decade and it was a far cry from the sultry humidity of Mumbai. I even had to wear a woolen inner to ward off the bitter early morning chill, but the timing I clocked put a smile to my lips!

hiatus...!

Its been quite a while since my last post...I guess I can just be honest and admit that I've been too lazy to update the blog on a regular basis. In fact, have not exactly been setting the side roads of Bombay and Calcutta on fire so as to have enough fodder for these pages. Be that as it may, plan to present whatever little I'd done in the run up to the Standard Chartered Bombay Marathon in the next few installments. The resumption of my training for the Bombay race couldn't have been off to a worse start with my running log pulling a disappearing right off my desk. Its been with me since I started my training for the Delhi Half Marathon and has been nothing short of a document of faith for me and it was more than just losing a copy.

Anyways, having reconciled to the fact that the log was lost for good, I tried to get down to the business of training. I, not surprisingly found myself a little out of steam. Since the novelty of running in a high voltage race was gone, it was now up to me to motivate myself to compete again...