As i finished my first 10 K @ TCS World 10K run on May 26 in Bangalore and unofficial running of Paris 10 Km run at paris, the next thing that i looked for is when is the next run ? Where etc. It was because of the energy that i took from the crowd !!! I saw so many people of different age groups, different disabilities, and were so much energetic through out the crowd. I decided that i will do my next run.This is how i enrolled for the Airtel Hyderabad marathon 2012 edition.
As i decided that i will do my next Long distance running, but now i need to select after reviews on the web and taking stake of my physical fitness i decided to do the Half Marathon and it is 21.1 Kms. I knew i can complete 10 Kms in 1.24 Minutes. So now strategy for the next10 Kms was running up in my mind, But it didn't stop me in registering for the event.
In may and June i have did my 10 KM and in August i have planned to do this. So again planning , Progressive elaboration ( A PMP technique) was used as i planned to increase my Laps in my regular running and my training was Up but to be honest i was not regular, I didn't even do any Strength training other than my regular stretches and the runnings.
As the d`day was nearing my strategy was changing ( Again my PMP Technique -change management) now i planned to complete only. And the strategy was 6 Km run 0.5 Km walk and repeat for 3 times on the entire stretch, with this in mind i boarded my train to Hyderabad along with Family ( Stake holders).
Amazing weather welcomed us in Hyderabad, it was drizzling and chill. Checked in the hotel near the railway station, and went to the expo, collected the BIB , met my mentors other fellows, and chilled out with my family.
One of the lesson learned in my previous run is diet management on the previous day and a good sleep is required. So i went to bed early and challenged the alarm as i woke up before it and put it on rest.
August 26 , I was on the starting point, made a mistake of crossing the line with my timing chip.Initially it was little distracting as it would affect my timing. But again put my mind on steady state on the Scope of the run - Enjoy and Complete not to worry about my timing. ( Avoid scope creep - PMP ). Now started enjoying the crowd. Again this is the X-factor that pulls me to the event seeing so much like minded people, getting guidance, sharing the energy , children, kids, Girls, Elders, Disabled people and lot of them .
As my event of HM was started i was in the middle and started moving into the crowd and i can see at least people in front me for Half a KM , again i put resistance to my thoughts of moving front and maintaining the pace. It was very good and my GPS on my SE mobile was on and it was guiding me.
My first 5 km was a cool run, and was same till next 10 Km. And i was on my same pace when i checked my GPS as it guided me for 1hr.20 Min. There were many flyovers so balancing the pace during the climbing and also during the down was interesting and i enjoyed it fully.
This was different to my strategy but still as my progress was better i planned to move with it. and now after 10 Kms the weather was getting cool and there were all possible signs of a heavy downpour and i checked for the weather proof for my handheld and i had my BIB cover in my pockets. so i never stopped and continued i was able to realise my Pace is going down so charged me with little drinks and banana.
And from here for me each KM was started going tough but i managed with little milestones,Like distance hoardings, flyovers,Parked vehicles,Tall Buildings etc. I switched to some fast songs on my device. It really helped me to push hard and as distance was decreasing an i was crossing 12,13,14,15 Kms and the rain was heavy, by the time was nearing the 18.5 Km the rain was decreasing and i was crossing the beautiful hitech city road and reached my last flyover.
here is when i felt the importance of the training as i was running very slow and took some help from the medicos with spray and again charged with some drinks and i crossed my 20 Km and was seeing people coming out with medals on the main road, but no sign of the stadium and now i took left and saw the stadium where the last lap and en-route there were many fellow runners who were on the way back to the parking and main road were giving us the energy .
I noticed the countdown in metres and i entered the stadium touched the synthetic turf for the last 100 metres it was an amazing feeling that i completed and got the finished medal from a small and little kid.
I joined with my family after few stretches and meeting with my fellow runners.As i was waiting to take a photo i had a small chat with fellow runner , after few lines of conversation he asked me are you coming to the KTM 2012? Crazy guys... and me too .. see you after my KTM 2012 run ...
HummingBird
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
My First 10 K run
It was in 2011 this idea to run started and i wanted to start as i had many dreams when i was young. But never worked towards that.Early in my academic side i have run some long distance like 1500Mts and once i have attempted a so called marathon at my native.
I remember my child hood days where my house was next to a big ground and we have run some morning runs like that.
It was in 2012 it became serious since i have been influenced by two people who was passion on running and it has become my Goal of 2012 to run a long distance run.
I started reading blogs,experiences etc and a fine morning i started to search for a ground and later found that there was this amazing ground pachiappas nears my home.
I started a C210, which is called as a couch to 10K program. I put my palnning and scheduling skills to target my first 10K run which was scheduled on May27th2012 at bangalore.
I was not regular on my practice, i started with 2 Km and reached 4.5 Km distance in couple of weeks.I also rejoined my gym as many of the people suggested to add stretch and core along with the running.
So i enjoyed the run in the pachiappas ground along with so many elders,young people, children doing their morning workouts in their style.
As i wanted to try a 5km run i ran from choolaimedu to geminiflyover , it was my first 5km run but at the end of the run i felt some pain in my right knee and later i consulted a doctor.It was shocking to hear from the doctor that i should not run for next 2 weeks, which means i will have no choice to try a comeback but to run directly.
It was hard but i concentrated on my core/stretch workouts.
Lot of plans were done for this event, as my family planned to miss their annual get together in their native.so with heavy heart but with determination of atleast to walk and complete the race i started to bangalore.
I changed the strategy like below which was adviced from a senior member of the www.chennairunners.com group.
1) Enjoy the run
2) Cross the finish line without injury
3) Run Walk Run
With this 3 in mind i reached bangalore, with family we all went to collect the BIB and planned the run.
On may27 morning i started @6.30 Reached the kantverra stadium in bangalore, happy to see so many people, Did a group warmup with NIKE group and started for the race.
I enjoyed all the run initially i ran for 2kms and walked for 0.5 Kms and later i could not measure but i stopped for few seconds on the course.
But for a surprise i never fet the pain in the knee and was able to complete the reace at a timing of 1H 24 Min.
I was feeling so great and joined with my family later and handedover my medal as the gift to my sons 2nd birthday.
It was a great feeling and my journey has begun here.
I remember my child hood days where my house was next to a big ground and we have run some morning runs like that.
It was in 2012 it became serious since i have been influenced by two people who was passion on running and it has become my Goal of 2012 to run a long distance run.
I started reading blogs,experiences etc and a fine morning i started to search for a ground and later found that there was this amazing ground pachiappas nears my home.
I started a C210, which is called as a couch to 10K program. I put my palnning and scheduling skills to target my first 10K run which was scheduled on May27th2012 at bangalore.
I was not regular on my practice, i started with 2 Km and reached 4.5 Km distance in couple of weeks.I also rejoined my gym as many of the people suggested to add stretch and core along with the running.
So i enjoyed the run in the pachiappas ground along with so many elders,young people, children doing their morning workouts in their style.
As i wanted to try a 5km run i ran from choolaimedu to geminiflyover , it was my first 5km run but at the end of the run i felt some pain in my right knee and later i consulted a doctor.It was shocking to hear from the doctor that i should not run for next 2 weeks, which means i will have no choice to try a comeback but to run directly.
It was hard but i concentrated on my core/stretch workouts.
Lot of plans were done for this event, as my family planned to miss their annual get together in their native.so with heavy heart but with determination of atleast to walk and complete the race i started to bangalore.
I changed the strategy like below which was adviced from a senior member of the www.chennairunners.com group.
1) Enjoy the run
2) Cross the finish line without injury
3) Run Walk Run
With this 3 in mind i reached bangalore, with family we all went to collect the BIB and planned the run.
On may27 morning i started @6.30 Reached the kantverra stadium in bangalore, happy to see so many people, Did a group warmup with NIKE group and started for the race.
I enjoyed all the run initially i ran for 2kms and walked for 0.5 Kms and later i could not measure but i stopped for few seconds on the course.
But for a surprise i never fet the pain in the knee and was able to complete the reace at a timing of 1H 24 Min.
I was feeling so great and joined with my family later and handedover my medal as the gift to my sons 2nd birthday.
It was a great feeling and my journey has begun here.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Traffic'JAM' only for innocents
I was so much disturbed when i was returning from my day job after long 10 hours of work in the office,i was made to wait in the road for more than 30 mins in a single place just to ensure that the protocol convoy of the Cheif minister is not Blocked.Couple of years when Jefrey archer was in chennai , he had the same incicident and he made the comment if this was in UK he will not survive on his post.. But we are in Poor india which is portrayed as Prosperous india..Rich gets richer and Poort becomes poorer..
for a single person to travel on the road he so many escorts, convoy, Traffic halts etc. i was just wondering if these people don't get involved in this kinds of common issues, how can they resolve them..
It was just funny that this people are our law makers !!
for a single person to travel on the road he so many escorts, convoy, Traffic halts etc. i was just wondering if these people don't get involved in this kinds of common issues, how can they resolve them..
It was just funny that this people are our law makers !!
Monday, May 31, 2010
Price of Life In our Country - India
I was so worried on last week , it was continuous disaster for lot of reasons.
1. There was a Mangalore Flight accident
2. There was Trail derailment
3. There was a sabotage on the train track by some bad elements in Westbengal which caused death >100 people..
So many lives has been lost on all the above 3 incidents..but i havent seen out all the common people ( including me) have been disturbed on that.
we dont even have courtsey to join together to pay a condolence to this people..
in other countries the "lives " are given so much price.
but here everything is politics..
Even the tran accident that occured in Westbengal is being politicised...
It is so bad..we have to start raisig voices on this kind of things....
1. There was a Mangalore Flight accident
2. There was Trail derailment
3. There was a sabotage on the train track by some bad elements in Westbengal which caused death >100 people..
So many lives has been lost on all the above 3 incidents..but i havent seen out all the common people ( including me) have been disturbed on that.
we dont even have courtsey to join together to pay a condolence to this people..
in other countries the "lives " are given so much price.
but here everything is politics..
Even the tran accident that occured in Westbengal is being politicised...
It is so bad..we have to start raisig voices on this kind of things....
Monday, May 11, 2009
Appraisal - Made easy
Generally when it comes to appraisal it is always done in the end of the year so we may not have all the updates that a person has contributed good / bad for the whole year.
when we are in the team management, it is better to review the appraisal document for each person in a smaller frequency ie)monthly once or on alternate months,
this methodology will give us to document the way the person has performed during each month, the contributions that helped to resolve issues or the areas that person has to improve.
as we monitor this monthly / alternate month it will be good to communicate to the individual for their accomplishments and also the areas that they have to still perform.
In projectized environment the resources may not be associated with one project manager throughout the year, so when some other request some feedback for the appraisal about the resource who have partially worked or contributed such kind of documentation will help us better.
Also during the appraisal discussions both the appraiser and appraiser will have enough information to talk and will help the resource to identify the strength and weakness.
when we are in the team management, it is better to review the appraisal document for each person in a smaller frequency ie)monthly once or on alternate months,
this methodology will give us to document the way the person has performed during each month, the contributions that helped to resolve issues or the areas that person has to improve.
as we monitor this monthly / alternate month it will be good to communicate to the individual for their accomplishments and also the areas that they have to still perform.
In projectized environment the resources may not be associated with one project manager throughout the year, so when some other request some feedback for the appraisal about the resource who have partially worked or contributed such kind of documentation will help us better.
Also during the appraisal discussions both the appraiser and appraiser will have enough information to talk and will help the resource to identify the strength and weakness.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
IT Company - FreePool - What to do ?
FreePool- few months back people were happily enjoying the time when they were back from a project. They had some amount of time to get into new project or to have a break from the old assighnments.
But today the trend is different , people are so worried if they are in the freepool. it is because , if the company plans for downsizing their headcount this is the first area to be attacked to sack the employees.So everyone wants to be in any one of the project having some billability.
what to do if You are in freepool?
Surely all the IT companies have a percentage of strength to be placed in the freepool.
if you are one among them then see that you are working as below
1. Get trained in some new dimensional products or in the new version of your platform
as people in the project would not be able to work on the same.
2. Get in touch with your managers and get to know about the latest trend in your platform
3. You can help someone in currently in the project, such that in case of any resource requirement you will have preference.
4. Utilize your time in upgrading you knowledge through examinations conducted through internal / external organisations.
5. In case if you have updated or acquired new skill set ensure that it is communicated to your managers or update in the skills set tool - this will help the organisation to pick you up immediately if there is any requirement.
The above are few inputs that we can follow are do if we are in a freepool.
As i discussed about do's i also wanted to mention few points about Dont's
1.Dont just enter the company for the purpose of attendance only.Ensure that you meet some key people once in a while and remind them about your presence.
2. Dont keep you away from the happenings of the organisation.
But today the trend is different , people are so worried if they are in the freepool. it is because , if the company plans for downsizing their headcount this is the first area to be attacked to sack the employees.So everyone wants to be in any one of the project having some billability.
what to do if You are in freepool?
Surely all the IT companies have a percentage of strength to be placed in the freepool.
if you are one among them then see that you are working as below
1. Get trained in some new dimensional products or in the new version of your platform
as people in the project would not be able to work on the same.
2. Get in touch with your managers and get to know about the latest trend in your platform
3. You can help someone in currently in the project, such that in case of any resource requirement you will have preference.
4. Utilize your time in upgrading you knowledge through examinations conducted through internal / external organisations.
5. In case if you have updated or acquired new skill set ensure that it is communicated to your managers or update in the skills set tool - this will help the organisation to pick you up immediately if there is any requirement.
The above are few inputs that we can follow are do if we are in a freepool.
As i discussed about do's i also wanted to mention few points about Dont's
1.Dont just enter the company for the purpose of attendance only.Ensure that you meet some key people once in a while and remind them about your presence.
2. Dont keep you away from the happenings of the organisation.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
IT company - Job Sacking style
I have been hearing of what is happening in the IT companies with related to the Job sacking, i have even witnessed the same for few of my friends in my and other orgainsations.
1.There is no notice issued to the employers about the firing.
2.If the employee is present in the office all the credentials are first blocked
3.The access to the office is completely removed.
4.A phone call is given from the HR to contact them.
5.They give him a piece of paper about for the removal from the payroll.
6.All the financial settlements which have been already prepared are handed over to him along with his experience certificate.
7.A final good bye from them
In few cases the initial entry to the office itself denied by removing the credentials of the acess card and the security office or the front office informs them to contact the HR.
it is so sad for someone who have contributed sincerely in his past tenure , nothing have been considered just through a simple phone call everything gets over.
1.There is no notice issued to the employers about the firing.
2.If the employee is present in the office all the credentials are first blocked
3.The access to the office is completely removed.
4.A phone call is given from the HR to contact them.
5.They give him a piece of paper about for the removal from the payroll.
6.All the financial settlements which have been already prepared are handed over to him along with his experience certificate.
7.A final good bye from them
In few cases the initial entry to the office itself denied by removing the credentials of the acess card and the security office or the front office informs them to contact the HR.
it is so sad for someone who have contributed sincerely in his past tenure , nothing have been considered just through a simple phone call everything gets over.
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