Done!
December 17th, 2007 | Published in Living, Personal, Sports & Adventure | 16 Comments
A gruelling 26 kms, on a course that had a combination of several uphill / downhill combinations and took me exactly 4 hours to complete! A rather scenic place to run in — so that made things much better! And organisers that had it all right and planned everything efficiently and perfectly. (Unlike the Bangalore International Marathon, which I hear didn’t do very well on that front).
Finally, after weeks of anticipation, completed my first ever long run. Am super thrilled and a longer post will come up soon!
December 17th, 2007 at 2:03 pm (#)
Anita, where was this?
December 17th, 2007 at 2:08 pm (#)
Congrates Anita.…. !!
December 17th, 2007 at 5:34 pm (#)
Hi Anita,
First time here.. I used to follow ur post on flickr, but following kiruba.com i came here to know the 26km run. This is definitely an achievement. Congratulations!!!!
December 17th, 2007 at 6:15 pm (#)
Congrats!!! Please tell the dude in the pic to either wear shorts or pants. Any guy wearing capri style is definitely suspect.
December 18th, 2007 at 6:18 am (#)
Good to see another feather in your cap.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:15 am (#)
Great…
Started with RFL?
I wish to start off sometime in 2008.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:16 am (#)
Bangalore marathon had a few dogs as well chasing the runners !!!
(thats what I read in news papers)
December 18th, 2007 at 3:22 pm (#)
@ Jace: At our Native Village, Hesarghatta. That was the starting point. There was a 6.5 km track up and down.
@ Prasoon: thanks!
@ balu: thanks so much!
@ Radman: i have nothing against it. so i’m definitely not telling him, plus he did a 26 in 3 hours. even with long pants, it might not be possible for some people :)
@ Ajay: thanks you!
@ Srikanth: yes, finally! you must!
@ Srikanth: yes, lots of dreadful stories at the bangalore marathon! we were having a great time at hesaraghatta in the countryside running between fields and forests. :)
December 18th, 2007 at 8:40 pm (#)
Wow.. well done Anita! I don’t think I would be able to finish such a long run!
xx :o)
December 21st, 2007 at 9:37 am (#)
congrats anita. I wish i could run. the only thing that i am on time for is happy hour.
December 21st, 2007 at 10:21 am (#)
What did Tony Blair tell George Bush when he had to leave the NATO meeting early?
Sorry Dubya, ANITA RUN!
December 22nd, 2007 at 12:27 am (#)
Nothing’s better than a good solid run! All the best in your future endeavours! :-)
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:38 am (#)
Awesome… i cycle i recently cycle STP (Seattle to Portland) It is aprox 200 miles and with a bunnch of pple. We took 1 day.
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December 24th, 2007 at 2:36 am (#)
wow — well done. would not have imagned that you are into this kind of stuff. Look pretty sharp in the picture as well — looks like things have really changed over the last coupla months ?
December 26th, 2007 at 2:26 pm (#)
@ Az Azura: thanks! i had many doubts myself! :)
@ Radman: thanks! yeah, that is always a good incentive :)
@ Arnab: :-\ I see you haven’t stopped being cheeky!
@ Dave: thanks a ton!
@ Abhinav: wow! cycling is something i still haven’t been able to figure out, maybe someday! but 200 miles in a day seems an awfully long distance to cover!
@ dev: hehe. yeah, that was the reaction that i got from a few people. that i don’t look like someone who runs ;0). but it’s always nice to surprise people!
November 18th, 2008 at 8:32 am (#)
[…] Last year’s Ultra was my first long distance running event. Besides the fact that I had no idea about the route (especially the uphill sections), I had also not run more than 10–12 kms in training. So it was quite an experience for me. But what was really motivating was the fact there were so many runners out there doing it for the first time and giving it all they had. Very inspiring. […]