Time: 7 am
Distance: 4.8 Km
Duration: 44 min 22 sec
Place: Electronic City, Bangalore
Lovely morning. The air was cool and fresh. I just reached
Bangalore at around 6:30 am but I was so enthusiastic about running. So, I did
not even hesitate a moment and put on my running accessories. I did some
warm-up exercises. I think I forgot some which Aswin had thought me. But that’s
ok. I did not drink any water. I went
for the jog in an absolutely empty stomach.
I started my run from Ajmera. For the first 1 km I felt a
bit comfortable by alternating between jogging and walking. But after that I started
to feel pain in my foot. From that moment I guess I walked more than jogging.
But an interesting thing is that I felt the same pain and exhaustion till the
completion. I did not feel too much exhausted and that was a surprise. I think
I would have done jogging for 40% and walking for 60%. I did not take any rest
during the course. I just had to tie my shoe-laces at one instance but I
resumed immediately.
As I read in the article by Hal Higdon, I did not strain
myself. Whenever I felt that I cannot jog any more, I immediately shift to
walking mode. I resumed jogging whenever I felt fine. I did not worry much about the timing. Mentally
I prepared to finish it by 40 minutes. But I did not look at my watch even for
an instance during the course. I saw the time when I stopped the stop-watch and
it was 44.22. Am really glad that I finished it close to what I really wanted
to. In fact am really glad that I was able to finish the course without any
interruption.
After returning home I just had 3 gulps of water. I did the
warm-down exercises. I felt a bit relaxed after doing that. I did not do any
stretching as I felt that it might hurt me. My thighs and calf-muscles were
tight and I felt a bit of pain. I know that this is going to continue for the
whole day. And then I went for a bath. I
was not too hungry. It was bearable. But I had good amount of food for
breakfast in a hotel.
As far as I am concerned, I am happy with today’s session.
Am just bit scared about tomorrow due to the “not-so-much-pain” in my legs.
Hopefully I should be able to complete another 4.8K course tomorrow morning. If
I finish that successfully then it would be really a good motivation for me.
