I almost forgot to update this blog. Well, a series of unfortunate events did it. After that Run To Read race, I simply got bored of running. I promised myself to use that race to break my old PR for 10km (52 minutes), instead I got 1h:04m:32s (according to my watch). Chasing after a PR after all is tiring, and when you don’t achieve it, you get frustrated. Thats what hit me. I walked a lot in that race (probably more than a kilometer!), because I went too fast on the first three kilometers and lost steam on the remaining distance. The race I joined 2 weeks before this race was even better at 54 minutes! So at the end of the day, I thought running with JUST the primary aim of breaking a PR can be pointless. But then I realize, life is a challenge. Life becomes an exciting journey when you have a goal. Doing ways to achieve that goal, is exciting too and when you do achieve your goal, damn that would be sweet! Read the rest of this entry »