A Nice Long Run

Laced up my running shoes today, after a break of 10 days. The goal was 10 k which I managed to do in a pretty decent time of 1:08:52

A slight change in scenery today as I had decided to run straight from home all the way up to Marina Beach - an extension of the usual Nitros route - and halfway back. Loved the run! It is always awesome to be up in the early hours when there are so few people and traffic about (relatively) and the air still feels fresh and clean! Once I got to the beach, I paused a little for a few lungfuls of the sea air before turning around.

There were a lot of runners around today. Chennai Runners had organized a short group run along the same route and I got to see a few familiar faces from the Nungambakkam Nitros as well. I initially thought that I would run with them today, but running with the group might have made me push a little harder just to keep pace with some of the other runners  and I wanted to go a little easy on the foot. 

I like today's route, it is more or less a straight stretch and can be easily tweaked for slightly longer distances. For my long runs I thinking I'll use versions of this route from now on. I'm all psyched for my next run on Saturday which will be 11.5k. 

Foot is doing ok right now. Need to see how it fares over the next couple of days and if all goes well with it, I'm thinking of doing a short 3k run on Tuesday to get used to my hydration belt & make sure that I can run comfortably with it. Fingers Crossed...