2009 Silicon Valley Half Marathon

Sunday, 25th October 2009


I successfully completed the Dean Karnazes Silicon Valley Half Marathon – my 3rd long distance run. This had been a year of learning to run with injuries – or rather, recover from them and get back on the feet at the earliest. In that sense, I am grateful that I was able to compete and complete the DKSVM race with a decent timing of 02:10.

02:10…. Interesting! It matches my 2008 run to the minute!! Almost to the second!!! The run experience was a close repeat of the 2008 race as well. What are the odds of that!

Since I didn’t change (well, other than aging by a year), I thought I will do a comparison between this year’s and last year’s results to see how the world has changed around me...

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	2009	2008
Overall Time	02:10:10	02:10:04
First 6 miles	00:55	00:55
Hardest 3 miles	9,10,11	10,11,12
Overall Place	410 out of 927	484 out of 982
Division Place	48 out of 71	53 out of 78

Certainly looks like I am statistically better off in 2009 over 2008!

2009 Official Results

Still 2 more months to go in 2009. In spite of the injuries and the mandatory time I had to take off from running, it looks like I will beat my 2008 stats (652 miles / 1050 kms). More on that towards the end of this year.