Hotlanta Marathon 23rd August 2015
Running always paved me a way to overcome myself, I tend to think myself as strong and jovial but life always not a bed of roses, you keep finding thrones on your way to the cozy bed. This is were running comes to rescue me and it always did. It Lets me keep off from my despair for a while. Sleepless nights, not so substantial days and add to your misery too. I tend to find time for running though, but sometime its lazy me who over power my will for running. Most of the time I am able to beat my laziness and plunge onto the road for some good run. At the end its just the satisfying feeling, realization of something gone good, sweat reminds me of something good.
After my 10k race at Peachtree Road race, I was looking for a bigger run. Read about Hotlanta Half Marathon, pretty unsure about staying back here for a while, could not register for it earlier but time I got to know I will be around here, first thing I did was to stop by Big Peach running club to register paying bit extra then the initial registration price. Marathon was on 23rd August 2015 and I did the registration on 10th August. With couple of weeks to power up my run and mileage, I continued what I was doing. Kept running over the evenings, did a long run same weekend. These days I was finding my running rhythm, longer runs where comfortable and could increase my mileage over time. Unknown source of power and music guided me over the time.
After my 10k race at Peachtree Road race, I was looking for a bigger run. Read about Hotlanta Half Marathon, pretty unsure about staying back here for a while, could not register for it earlier but time I got to know I will be around here, first thing I did was to stop by Big Peach running club to register paying bit extra then the initial registration price. Marathon was on 23rd August 2015 and I did the registration on 10th August. With couple of weeks to power up my run and mileage, I continued what I was doing. Kept running over the evenings, did a long run same weekend. These days I was finding my running rhythm, longer runs where comfortable and could increase my mileage over time. Unknown source of power and music guided me over the time.
My fitness was also steady due to the Cricket I was playing on weekends for the Atlanta Cricket League. This kind of helped me be better my quick runs and heat. On the D-day, 23rd August, I got up early, listening to my playlist and was ready to hit the road. I was talking to a running in MARTA Train and got to know about the expected rain half way through the race starts. Well, Peachtree Road Race was also a similar event which ended up running all the way in rain, and I was pretty disappointed to run in rain again, although I enjoy rain but this time I wanted to give my best.
My run started pretty good, kept my pace and initial 10k I completed in 58 mins, but soon the rain started pouring making it hard to keep my pace, water streams were all across and day almost looked like a night with street lights on for some time. I kept whatever pace I could maintain and ran to complete the Marathon in 2hr 13 mins, best so far after the debacle run in November last year in India. I was happy. Also happy because I felt I was the only Indian running here J couldn’t see any more Indian faces around. I took some pics and also created a video to say hi to Hriday, Avni, Aru and my Appi. It was great run and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Below are some pics and my race results.
Race result:
518
| Prashant Patil |
927
|
30
|
M
|
30-34
|
2:13:30
|
2:15:04
|
10:11/M
|
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| Joy of seeing the Finish line |
Keep running !!
