Day 1 - March 1st 2010

With all excuses taken care of, including a cheap digital watch (150 bucks), I was ready with getting started on my morning runs. My new year resolution says I need to be able to run a half marathon by September of this year. At this point in time, I believe it’s doable. Given the fact that I’ve done 150km a week (about 20 years ago :-P) and have stayed fairly injury free, I don’t see it as an impossible goal.

However, 20 years is a long time to get back into shape. I read an amusing saying – the longest distance is that between the bed and the floor.

Not having got a very good night’s sleep, thanks to juniors troubled sleep, I overshot my start time by half an hour. Ambling into the kitchen thinking I’d procrastinate and do the run tomorrow, the wife mentioned she’d handle junior and the kitchen if I wanted to get a quick run. That what I call encouragement and it was all I needed to get into my running shoes and strap on the new gizmo and get started. Here’s what I managed to do

5mt run
1 mt walk
5mt run
1 mt walk

Before I could do more, I managed to change the time instead of the stop clock throwing my timing out of whack. Seemed an ok start for day 1. Plan to run every other day and use this blog to mark where I fall.

Total distance covered: Not sure, about 1.5km I guess. Not very tired at the end, but need to pace myself better. Was out of breath on the second run. Sure, stamina is not good, but I’m excited :-)

Point to note: get out of bed at 5.45am, plan the previous day properly so I get the required sleep.

Hey, its doable, definitely. The goal is to do a 5k in 8 weeks - April 23rd is D Day