Training my muscles..

Have been training regularly the past 3 weeks or so... Slowly getting my body adjusted to running... Since I have almost 5-6 months to my marathon (Chicago, Oct 12), we have enough time to stretch and tone the muscles we never did earlier... or never did enough to compete with the Kenyans..!

Well... I am not competing with anyone.. leave alone the Kenyans!! They are one hell of a pack... But marathon running is about endurance and all-around development... even the muscles in the abdomen or the butt contribute to running.. Never realized why I needed to flex my butt muscles before running earlier... It now seems so simple ;-)

I have just reached 3.5 miles at-a-stretch now... But the key is consistency and continuity.. So, I am going to be running even when I am in New York for the next 10 days... Let me know if you wanna join me there!

Baby Steps!

In the world of Iron Men (refer Iron Man Triathlon), I am just a toddler taking his baby steps... and I just want to chronicle my first steps and my experiences as I train for the Marathon!!

I am sure I have not run 26.2miles in my entire lifetime put together so far. I am now going to run it in a single day... and multiple times over as I practise the next few months. And with my coaches and mentors @ Team Asha, I am pretty sure I am in good hands!!

So, here is to Iron Men and Women of the world(read coach Char's blog!) and the toddlers!!! :-)