Sunday, October 31, 2010 – Halloween Day!
3rd year in a row at the Silicon Valley Half Marathon…. And another year where my performance was almost identical to the previous 2 years. Again placed 48 in my age group, I completed this one in 2:13:45, slightly behind the 2:10 that I did earlier. What made this effort more than respectable was that I did this run with a gout attack. For those of you who are new to gout, it is very painful and disabling – fortunately, the attack had come not in one of the classic locations – that would have made me bail out of the race, but behind the heel allowing me to run. With the pretty strong medication, I was amazed at the fact that I was able to run, let alone being close enough to last year!
2010 Official Results
Just a few days back, on 20th, I ran with the legendary Dean Karnazes himself. It was a practice 5 mile run in Stanford, along with several others registered for DKSVM. Dean was such a down to earth nice person; for all his accomplishments, he had no airs about himself… I guess truly great people are truly humble! He was there on Oct 31st also and he kicked off the Halloween run wearing Pheidippides costume commemorating the 2500 year anniversary of the first marathon!
This year, my goal is to run every single week of the year. So far, so good… another 8 to go and I hope to end the year doing about 700 miles. More interestingly, I experimented with bare foot running this year. Having clocked more than 60 barefoot miles this year, I can say that it is actually a pleasure to run bare foot… except that the number of locations I can run is limited to ONE - a fully synthetic and rubberized running track in Campbell! I know I inspired at least one other person to experiment bare foot running.
That’s it, folks! I appreciate you talking the time to read and comment. Keep those feet moving… you will be glad you did!
3rd year in a row at the Silicon Valley Half Marathon…. And another year where my performance was almost identical to the previous 2 years. Again placed 48 in my age group, I completed this one in 2:13:45, slightly behind the 2:10 that I did earlier. What made this effort more than respectable was that I did this run with a gout attack. For those of you who are new to gout, it is very painful and disabling – fortunately, the attack had come not in one of the classic locations – that would have made me bail out of the race, but behind the heel allowing me to run. With the pretty strong medication, I was amazed at the fact that I was able to run, let alone being close enough to last year!
2010 Official Results
Just a few days back, on 20th, I ran with the legendary Dean Karnazes himself. It was a practice 5 mile run in Stanford, along with several others registered for DKSVM. Dean was such a down to earth nice person; for all his accomplishments, he had no airs about himself… I guess truly great people are truly humble! He was there on Oct 31st also and he kicked off the Halloween run wearing Pheidippides costume commemorating the 2500 year anniversary of the first marathon!
This year, my goal is to run every single week of the year. So far, so good… another 8 to go and I hope to end the year doing about 700 miles. More interestingly, I experimented with bare foot running this year. Having clocked more than 60 barefoot miles this year, I can say that it is actually a pleasure to run bare foot… except that the number of locations I can run is limited to ONE - a fully synthetic and rubberized running track in Campbell! I know I inspired at least one other person to experiment bare foot running.
That’s it, folks! I appreciate you talking the time to read and comment. Keep those feet moving… you will be glad you did!
