Bunch of Asha runners decided to run Half marathon organized by Sankara Eye Foundation and I joined them. This race was held at local shoreline park, mountain view and named as iWalk 2008. Funds gathered during the race will go towards building more eye hospitals in India to achieve 20/20 Vision in India by year 2020. I am glad that I am running in a race that has such a noble cause.
This is my second official half marathon race event on my way to run my first marathon. I haven't prepared as much as I did for my SF half marathon. But, took basic precautions like eating carbs day before and had proper sleep night before. Race course was pretty flat and couple of hundred runners participated for half marathon. There were more folks in 5K/10k Walk/Run. I started the race strong by running my first mile around 10min/mile as I had company of Raghavan & Mandar. It was 2 minutes faster than my usual pace. Then, I decided to slow down and let rag & mandar run pass by me. Organizes arranged frequent water stops through out the course and it helped me not to use stuff from my fuel belt. We started at 8:25am, and weather was cloudy during first two hours which made us run comfortably. I was running most of the miles around 11 minutes and I was not believing myself. On my way back, I ran past Mandar and finished my run little under 11 min pace (10.59mpm). Just broke my PR for half marathon and new PR is 2:24. They gave nice medal for finishing the half marathon. Something to carry home happily. At the end of the race, Dosa place sponsored pongal, upma, idly & bisbela bath. Relished them while having chat with my fellow asha friends (krishna, deepu, chakri, sahana, ullas, arnav, mousumi, simmy). Came home around noon and had my ice bath to give some relief to my sore muscles.
Running stats: 13.1 miles in 2:24 with 10:59mpm pace.
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