TCS 10K - 2014 and Nike Vomero 9

Finally, did a decent 10K to start this year at the TCS10k this May, Bangalore, 2014



Finished in 1hour and 2 minutes. Have been clocking some decent miles from the start of this year and averaging 25K per week.

Some of my colleagues participated for first time.

Time for a half marathon at Kaveri this September.

A slight nag in my right heel and it was time to upgrade my Asics. Can't believe that I haven't changed my shoes for more than 2000KM - since 2011 ( as I was running intermittently). But for the last one year or so my pace has picked up and so are my running days.

Finally chose Nike Zoom Vomero 9 that had extra cushion around the heels.



Nike Pegasus 31 was fine and  Nike Flynit was like barefoot. Tell you, Adidas Energy Boost was equally
good.

Clocked 5KM today, seems decent. Will review it further.

4 years ....

5-5-2014... we enter our 5th year of marriage...
took a cheeky time off :)

Aadu was @ Patti's place. Sorry young man ! But we got the cake for you.

The above pic was at 22 ... More as things unwind... Training for TCS 10K is currently on, more on that later.

Adios !

Chennai, Shatabdi and Marina...

After a very very long time we went in for a weekend holiday.

We went to Chennai to catch some beach and my sister,bro-in-law and their daughter.

Aadu liked his stay at the hotel and on Sunday morning he liked the marina beach.

This was the first time Aadu was exposed to the swimming pool. He enjoyed being at the pool immensely and was all throughout like "Row, row, row your boat"

Aadu enjoyed Shatabdi immensely, playing pranks with passengers.


Finally some small mini holiday for all of us !

Aadu at Chennai and 2014 season

We had a quick dash to chennai to attend Ani's cousin's wedding. It was for just one night.
This was Aadu's longest travel by road. Though we wanted to show him the beach but our schedule was just too tight.... Ani's dad also accompanied us!

We had a great accommodation arranged for us at the Greenpark @ Vadapalani by Ani's mama. Thanks to him !

We started by 7.45AM and reached by 2PM. Thankfully the venue was very close Sriperambattur highway. Also we used Google Maps to its fullest to reach to our destination perfectly within the city.

After the marriage and lunch we started back by 1.30PM and reached Bangalore by 7.30PM

Hope to have more updates by year end.

Run Updates:
On the running front, I'll be starting of training for the 2014 season. This will be after 5 years. Hope to get back in shape by year end. Plan to do two marathons (41KM) and two halfs (21KM) in 2014. Aurovile Half in February will be the first one to start with, one full in Hyd, Kaveri (half/full) and hope to end with Mumbai 2015.

I'll be finally buying cycle for my cross training. Hope to cycle to office twice a week.

The idea is to be back to 2009 fitness levels :) and hope to add more running/cycling posts soon.