Having decided to run a half -marathon here in Chennai I immediately started preparing by watching movies which deal with marathons. The Marathon Man is a great movie, but Dustin Hoffman runs too fast . Then I came across the movie- Run, Fat Boy, Run which is an OK movie but has great running tips. Perseverance was the key ingredient.
On a pleasant rainy day (Sept 27th) about 300 runner participated in the race. I ran the race (without Stopping) in 2hrs and 50 minutes. Post marathon there were celebrations, a carnival type atmosphere , a full food court and the Masala Dosai tasted particularly good .
The winners were;
Men- John Wembusa(KENYA) 1:04.04
Women- Nelly Jepkurui(KENYA) 1:15.53
Wembusa has a world ranking of 42 and was awarded 5 Lakhs prize money.
Prabhakar
3 comments:
We're so proud of you Appa! Great job, just wish we had been there to see you.
xoxo
Priya, Ashwin and Leann
Prabhu,
Congratulations!! We are so happy it was a pleasant day - we were concerned that it might be way too
hot. It has turned cool here
in WI bringing a sudden end to our
warm and glorious September.
We just returned from our annual
Superior Hiking Trail weekend with
the church group and did a 5;5 mile
hike - nothing compared to your
accomplishment!
Take care and be well-
Love, N and D
CONGRATULATIONS. Prabhu!!! What an endeavor for you. Sounds like the weather cooperated. Good Job. Great to have Leann & the kids home. It really is like they never left. That's good for the kids too. Looking forward to x-mas when you come home. We are certainly keeping our fingers crossed!!!Just wanted to check in. P, J, M & S xoxo
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