So rather than go back and create all the memorable runs to date I’ve put in the few that seem to have been significant and based on my watch, since I started this journey on 29 May I have travelled 326km, burnt 44420 calories and taken 53:17 minutes to do it. Which is fairly appallingly slow.
Hey, the head cold is gone. I think I sweeted it out of the system. So feeling motivated, after another day of hammering at the building site I donned a new Tshirt (and damp shorts – argh) and took to the treadmill again.
Another short run at 10.10km on a slop set to 3 (whatever that means) however on HBO there was a good movie with Jack Nicholas. I couldn’t be bothered to keep running and once I hopped off the Indian guy changed channles so I did not see the end.
Oh, and today marks the end of the 11 days of religious ceremony which culminate in a huge amount of noise where the locals take plaster images of one of their gods and dissolve them in the sea. On one of the TV channels they had a local greenie on whom was complaining that as the plaster and paints dissolved they were polluting the sea and killing the fish.
I’m in Mumbai on work staying at the Taj President, yesterday I checked out the gym which has a couple of good running machines and a CRT telivision with MTV. Suffering from a sore back (the chairs in the office are terrible) a headache from visiting our new building site and listening to hammering for about 3 hours and a cold (or is it a reaction to the dust) I decided to go for a run on the treadmill.
I only ran 10.98km but it was increadibly boring, with what seemed like 100s of TV channels there wasn’t a single program on that was interesting.
The Singapore Marathon, which occurs on the 3rd of December seems like good preperation for the Tokyo event. Given that the only other race I ever ran was the FIT run around Imperial Palace in Tokyo, understanding how the race occurs and what you should take with you seemed like a good idea. Hence I signed up, missing the early bird registration by abot 6 hours and having to pay almost double!
On the back of recovering from my first run outdoors I decided to do it again (this time with Sun Tan lotion on). I did the same route as the first (for no good reason). I clocked 20.79km but collapsed in Little India feeling like I was going to die. I had to lie and wait till I recovered for about 30 minutes then I crawled into a taxi and went home and slept for a few hours.
I suspect that the lack of fluid intake migt have had something to do with it so I resolved to investigate camelbak packs with bladders.
Lots of guys from work, whom live near me run home. I have been putting it off as the organisation required and the motivation at the end of the day seemed lacking. But today I bit the bullet and packed my sling bag with my gear. After work I tried to run home but the side slung bag was terrible and I resolved to buy a better back pack. The run was 3.4km and took a little too long as had to walk a lot of the way.
At Newton Crossing you need to go across an overhead walk way and then run through a round-about where you take your life in your hands. Not very fun really but I guess its good for me.
