Thursday, July 24, 2008

First ten miler on my Birthday

There are good days to run. And there are other types of days to run!

Today was a terrific day for running. Wonderful weather. Heavy rains last night had brought the temperatures down to mid 70s as compared to upper 80s and above for the past few days. I was also well rested, having slept deeply yesterday night and taking a break from running yesterday. I was also in high spirits thanks to the amazing love and friendship shown by many on the occasion of my Birthday!

Originally was thinking of running a Watchung Reservation, but decided to go to Liberty State park mainly due to the wet and soggy conditions likely to be there on the dirt tracks of Watchung Reservation. Concrete and tarred tracks of Liberty State park were perfect for running in these conditions.

Ran from around 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM - completing 10 miles in 1 hour and 54 minutes! I was energetic all along, and took only a couple of water breaks all through - the first break after an hour having completed 5.65 miles. There was quite a bit of juice left in me even after the 10 mile run - that is Goooood!

My Garmin Forerunner 305 clocked double digit mileage for the first time! I have taken a picture of this amazing feat for the sake of history!

I am proud of how much I have improved my running over the last few months. At the beginning of this year, I ran a 4M race and finished it in 51 minutes walking half the way. Now I run more than 5 miles without taking a walking break!!

Happy Birthday 2 me!
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4 comments:

Unknown said...

Hey this is wonderful achivement. go ahead. it is worthy gift to us.thanks

Kumar Basavaraju said...

Wonderful friend, What a way to celebrate your birthday having a sense of achievement. Just keep going and may you be blessed to conquer more landmarks in life to make yourself proud and us too.
Keep S+miling.

Anonymous said...

Now thats some real achievement. I'm still struggling to finish my fourth mile. 26.2 is still a long way away dude. Keep running.

Anonymous said...

Belated Happy Birthday too.