Contour's Women's day run- 3rd-Mar-2013

Event name: Contour's Women's day run
Event date: 3rd-Mar-2013
Event venue: Bangalore
Run distance: 10 KM
Bib #: 3060
Overall time taken: 64 minutes
Overall run Speed: 6.31 minutes per KM
Time of run: The run started at 6:30 AM
URL:http://www.contoursindia.in/cwdr2013.html

This run was my third Contours Women's day run out of the 4 scheduled so far in last four years. It is always a pleasure to be able to come back and run the same event. The three that i had run were in different venues so that was something good about this run. New terrains do bring in unique challenges. But the terrain this time was not that new to me as i have run in/around Cubbon Park in Bangalore quite often in the various events. The best part about this run now and in the past have been the Start timings, which starts at 6:30 AM for 10Km runs. The weather and sun still not ripe at this time favors the runners to have less outside interferences. I enjoy the earlier start anytime. 

Due to some uncertainties around Parking, i reached at the venue before 5:30 AM only to find out that my fears about not getting parking if i dont reach early were not that real. I was comfortably the second car in the parking lot and was glad to know that there is someone else who thought like me. I spent sometime in the car reading (i do carry books for such occasion so that i could do whatever little justice i can to my other passion of reading) and also found time to doze off for 15 min before heading out to the venue. The Venue was full of energy and there were some good aerobics type warm up planned. I enjoyed soaking in the high energy environment.

For almost every run that i have participated in so far, i was rather unintentionally quite far from the start line. I never thought myself to be closer to the flag and speed off. This was partly because i never ran with the Speed goals in mind and was content standing wherever i got the space to stand. This time was different as i stood close to the flag and could see it go off and with it i too ran with so many other folks around me. The run was overall good considering i was coming off not much practice and i could finish the run in around 64 minutes, which was decent by my standards. Somethings about this run stood out, which i wanted to share-

- During the run, i saw the person pulling a wheelchair with an underprivileged , specially-abled kid. Everytime he passed him i was amazed on what we was doing and even though he was pulling the Wheel chair bound person, he was quite faster than me. I only had good things to say to him everytime he crossed me. Though i felt somewhere in my heart that the person sitting on the Wheelchair too was finding this all good, which i hope he was. But this was one sight i had seen in my runs for the first time.

- Cheering squad as usual was superb. They were doing all that the were supposed to do cheering loudly, making noise and keeping the environment charged up with Positive energy.

- Third thing that i wanted to share was more of a realization about how to improve one's timings in these runs. Though thats never been my prime focus area ever but somehow i felt that since last year due to practice my timings have been improving. Here i learnt that if you want to beat the guy in front, you cannot do that by focusing on the people chasing you. You got to be looking ahead. Thats what positive thinking is all about.