This week I finally did a 1 hour 58 minutes half marathon run on the actual circuit. This was my personal goal for this years run. I also hit my ideal BMI index weight. This feels personally very motivating. It has taken exactly 1 year to go from 78kgs to 70Kgs just by regular exercise.
The regular running has been going on - usual distances. Sunday is the day for doing to the entire 21kms - and about 10kms every other day.
The entire group of IT and BPO teams will start training in DAKC from this week. I am sure it will energize the other team members.
We need to speedup the fundraiser. Not getting enough time to put some focus around it. We also need volunteers from other deparments who can coordinate the fund raiser from their departments. Please contact Mugdha to join the Fund-Raising team.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Friday, December 7, 2007
Week 6: Mid Week Update
Yesterday 50 people from IT signed up for the Marathon - not the little one but the 21kms. Way to go.
Training at DAKC to start on Saturday 5.30pm. Members from Reliance BPO and IT will assemble behind Heritage.
Training at DAKC to start on Saturday 5.30pm. Members from Reliance BPO and IT will assemble behind Heritage.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Week-5: Dec 3rd - Dec 9th
This week was great. Apart from the usual practice, we ran in Aamby Valley during the NetApps IT Governance Conference.You can see the photos on the side. We made considerable progress in the kms also. The dog in the picture was the newest addition to the team. He followed us for all 15 kms through the mountains. Mugdha is still compiling the total kms run.
This week we hope to get more people running and hope to get the DAKC Training program started as well.
We have reached a collection of 1 lac and have got pledges of additional 1 lac from the IT HODS at the Chak De IT meet last Saturday.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Week 4: Nov 18th - Nov 25th
This week I got back on the road again. I managed 55Km, Sandy did his usual 70km and Rahul did 18 Km. We are looking forward for some more runners as we are running behind schedule.
The contribution cheques have also started to trickle in. The KMs are moving faster than the contribution so I urge all supporters to chip in early.
There has been a lot of support emails and lots of interest in running. This week we will start the DAKC training session. Please contact Mugdha for details of the session. We intend to do once a week training in the evening.
So long.... ending Week-4 status. More to follow.
First Three Weeks: Oct 28th - Nov 17th
It is a fine crisp morning in South Delhi and I am wearing running Bib No 3560 along with more than 15000 people to start the Vodafone Delhi Half Marathon. 2 Hours and 8 minutes later I finish the run. Not bad compared to the 2 Hours and 20 minutes I had used for Mumbai Marathon in January.
This was not the finish of the Delhi Marathon but the first 21Km of the Delhi-Mumbai 1428km Relay Marathon. We got this idea to run-for-a-cause and raise awareness and raise funds for education and specifically digitally inspired primary education using the OLPC Foundation developed XO Laptops. We are doing our first pilot in a remote tribal village in Maharastra.
In the auto ride to the parking lot, I met the most inspiring Dr Rajat Chauhan and Sunil Chainani. You can read his BLOG and find your own source of inspiration.
I intend to keep you posted how Team IT - (Initial members: Sandy Mehta, Rahul Khona and me) keep pace as we traverse the 1428 Km distance between Delhi and Mumbai. As the team grows, we will change the route to add Kilometers. Send mail to Mugdha to join the team and add your daily/weekly km run.
Other teams who compete against the IT team will create their own goals, reaching Mumbai from different locations.
Week-1: 65 kms
Starting with my Delhi Marathon and Sandy running in Mumbai, we are off to a good start.
Week-2: 170 kms
I spent three days in the US and had to run on the tread-mill (to avoid getting shot running in downtown Dallas). Got 25 kms over two days as brisk pace. Sandy did his usual 70 kms. Diwali got in the way.
Week-3: 230 Kms
Had a bad week with dehydration so Sandy did most all the running.
Signing off on end of Week-3: Rahul joins the gang this week.
Sumit Chowdhury, Sandy Mehta & Rahul Khona
This was not the finish of the Delhi Marathon but the first 21Km of the Delhi-Mumbai 1428km Relay Marathon. We got this idea to run-for-a-cause and raise awareness and raise funds for education and specifically digitally inspired primary education using the OLPC Foundation developed XO Laptops. We are doing our first pilot in a remote tribal village in Maharastra.
In the auto ride to the parking lot, I met the most inspiring Dr Rajat Chauhan and Sunil Chainani. You can read his BLOG and find your own source of inspiration.
I intend to keep you posted how Team IT - (Initial members: Sandy Mehta, Rahul Khona and me) keep pace as we traverse the 1428 Km distance between Delhi and Mumbai. As the team grows, we will change the route to add Kilometers. Send mail to Mugdha to join the team and add your daily/weekly km run.
Other teams who compete against the IT team will create their own goals, reaching Mumbai from different locations.
Week-1: 65 kms
Starting with my Delhi Marathon and Sandy running in Mumbai, we are off to a good start.
Week-2: 170 kms
I spent three days in the US and had to run on the tread-mill (to avoid getting shot running in downtown Dallas). Got 25 kms over two days as brisk pace. Sandy did his usual 70 kms. Diwali got in the way.
Week-3: 230 Kms
Had a bad week with dehydration so Sandy did most all the running.
Signing off on end of Week-3: Rahul joins the gang this week.
Sumit Chowdhury, Sandy Mehta & Rahul Khona
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