With running becoming popular in Bangalore, most people are
now serious about running. Running communities have come up which trains new
runners. Few running organizations have already been there for some time now and
organize runs, also providing each runner with individual consultation. Runners
for life is one such group which has membership norms and is most active in the
city. Also few groups are created among runners where you don’t need any
membership, you can be part of their running over the weekends, Nike free run
is one such group. With this growing
interest in running, people in IT turning out make themselves fit, so as people
in Infosys.
Infosys running community organizes 5k and 10k run every six
months called Infosys September Run and Infosys Summer Run in September and
April respectively. I was part of ISR held in September 2012 and finished 10k with
timing of 1 hour 3 mins. Event was good except that I had to skip my work for some
time and later had extend the work at night. Summer time it’s called Infosys Summer
Run which was held yesterday 24th April. I had registered for it
only couple of day before the run since I was not sure. But things took it course
day before when I had to attend a telepresense call at Cisco Belandur office,
that is around 18 kms from electronic city office. Well, it was a day of
events, I went to attend the meeting in the morning, after the meeting I met my
Cisco office colleagues and left to Infosys by 3 pm expecting to have ample
time before the run that will start at 5 pm. I went to my room got my running
gears and shoes, was back on my office desk by 4 pm. Completed a small work I was
doing and then left to the starting point of the run. All through the way I was
giving a second thought for the run as I was bit exhausted travelling almost 40kms
on bike in Bangaluru traffic. I thought about Chennai marathon which was even
worse than this, so made my mind on running comfortably and finishing the race.
This time around running crowd was good in numbers. We were supposed to run 2.5
kms loop four times for 10k run. Marathon started at 5.30 pm, as always I
started slowly, picked up bit of speed in loop 2 and the next two loops, I was
aiming to finish within an hour. Except the stomach stitch in my last loop, run
was pretty well. Finished it in 59 mins 11 secs, according to my watch timings,
will wait for the official timing to come out. It was a descent run, I need to
work on increasing my pace, which would cut down some more minutes. No pictures
taken, no certificate yet :)
Happy Running !!
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