Copenhagen Marathon 2008

I finally went and bought a memory card reader and was able to get the pictures loaded onto Picasa. Ragnar was my running partner during the training and on the marathon. I had written about my result last year in another post. I completed the marathon in 4:08:00, my running partner on the other hand did much better he finished in 3:45 or something like that. I was very happy for him. Overall it was a good experience. The Copenhagen Marathon route was very interesting as well, the buildings, the water cannals and parks were very pretty but I remember the weather to be little chilly and windy.

I remember keeping up with Ragnar until the 25th km and we were averaging a pace of 5:24 min/km, which would have been a great race completion pace. I am hoping to better my PB in Berlin in the coming Chicago Marathon.

Chicago Marathon 2009 - October 11

I have registered to run the Chicago Marathon on October 11, 2009... I will be using this blog instead of my other blog to chronicle my preparation

10km in 50min on Dec 31 race in Reykjavik

Finally! achieved a goal in running. It was quite a thrill to be able to beat your own demons... I have tried to break into the 50 minutes for 10km race since I started running in 2006 and finally did it almost 3 years later!

Copenhagen Marathon: 4:08:00!

Completed the copenhagen marathon in 4 hours and 8 minutes. It was a disappointing result! Lesson learnt, there is not substitute for hard work... I was travelling in India for 3 weeks before the marathon and skipped couple of long runs and it came back to bite me in the race. I also did not do enough milage during the training. But net net I was happy that I was able to finish with a respectable time without much training.

I am not sure what my next goal is, if I am still in Iceland in August I plan to run half a marathon in 1:40:00.

Copenhagen Marathon 2008

I decided a couple of days ago to run the Copenhagen Marathon 2008. Here is the training schedule so far, I have to admit have not been running as regularly as I wanted to and that is one of the reason that I am signing up to run the Marathon. It forces me to work on a goal. Anyway, will be posting my training update on a regular basis. The weather in Iceland has been quite cold, it has been snowing more than ever.

Here is the training worksheet so far... I have had more practice runs than this but I did not capture it as it was on a treadmill.

10KM in 53:09 & Chicken Pox

The weather was horrible with 10 to 15 m/sec wind, but I ran the race and finished in 53 minutes and 9 seconds. Here is the official result, I was planning to run another 10KM race the following week but as my luck would have it I got Chicken Pox, I can assure you that this was the MOST HORRIBLE experience of my life. I felt like I was trapped in a twilight zone and my worst nightmare together.

I had breakouts through out my body, my face, my head... you name it and I had a break out. The fever ran almost all the way upto 42 degrees centigrade. Doctor came to my house as it was a contagious disease and they had to give me a combination of painkillers and fever reducers to prevent my fever from getting to dangerous levels.

I have been in bed from January 10 to January 17. I am glad it is over. The best part of this is disease is that I have lost about 3 kgs, now I just need to maintain my weight and get back to running. I tried running but I was too weak, I will get back on the running trail again... wish me luck!

Gamlárshlaup ÍR a.k.a Old Year Run 2007

Registered to run the December 31st run, last year I did this run in 51 min 59 sec and was not very happy with the result. I am going to try to break the 50 minutes barrier again this year, however it looks like the weather Gods are not going to cooperate, according to the Icelandic weather forecasting the wind is going to blow at 10 m/s which is not that much compared to what it has been yesterday, it was close to 25 m/s and it has been raining. I think this is probably the worst condition that I have ever seen in Iceland.

Anyway, I am going to run and hopefully do it in a respectable time. Wish me luck :)