Bengaluru Marathon 2015 !

After the well organized training runs organized by Shriram Properties Bengaluru Marathon 2015, the main event on 18th October finally came. Nine of us started from IISc at 4:30 am to Kanteerava stadium by Ola cab. I had a slight limp in my left leg, but it felt good after the warmup. The stadium was enthused by the 17000 runners geared up for the full and half marathon. The full marathon already started at 4:45 a.m and we were ready for the start of the half marathon at 5:45 am. The start point was on the synthetic track, and I managed to traverse the crowd and cross the starting timing mat.

Before the run- Kanteerava stadium

Got hold of Bisleri water after 2 km mark itself and hydrated myself regularly. The initial 5 km pick up the pace quite fast in 23:31 minutes, with the early morning cool breeze, maintained the pace till 10 km finishing in 47 minutes, had a glucose drink,  and crossed the 12 km mark in 57 minutes. The route was quite even with little upslope and downslope. It became difficult after the 12 km mark due to fatigue accumulated in the legs, crossed 15 km in 72 minutes. I had to push through the last 6 km and after finishing 20 km in 99 minutes, finished the half marathon in 1:46:08 hours. I sprinted the last 200 m and was fully exhausted in the end. The guys from the recovery camp stretched my legs a bit, and I right toe nail got injured after getting stamped on my barefoot, but I was fine.

Splits

NAME

SPEED

CLIMB

1 km

12.28

11

2 km

13.19

3

3 km

12.52

7

4 km

13.14

-9

5 km

12.71

-3

6 km

12.54

8

7 km

12.60

4

8 km

12.61

-10

9 km

12.71

-11

10 km

12.83

-2

11 km

12.36

-6

12 km

12.44

1

13 km

12.01

17

14 km

11.56

11

15 km

11.90

-1

16 km

12.47

-16

17 km

11.17

12

18 km

10.98

1

19 km

10.60

-1

20 km

10.93

-8

21 km

11.19

0

Finisher Medal after the run

After finishing the run, cooled down and explored the glorious stadium, filled with runners all around. Had a nice heavy breakfast and there were crowd was cheering the winners of the half and full marathon. My timing results were put up one day later.

Post Marathon ceremony