(In the words of N2...)
Last year I ran a 5k in Stonehill and my timing was 31:13 for the 5k. I told my father that i wanted to run better this year. So, I asked him if I could do it below 30mins. He said we have to start training. We used to train once or twice a week in Boulevard Park. The training was difficult because I had never done so fast and so long distances before. Finally, it was the day before the race.
Me and my father went for a recce to check the track. We didn't exactly know how it was, it was bit confusing, but we did as much as we could.
The next day we woke up at 6AM. Even my sister and my mother were running, my sister was not very serious about it, but she also wanted to finish.
When we reached GKVK, we had to collect the bib and the tee shirt. There was pre-race Zumba warmup and the race was supposed at 7:30. But then, it was 7:30 and the Zumba hadn't even started yet. My father and I skipped the Zumba and we were doing a warm up at the start line. My father met few older kids from our school and they were trying to run their 5k below 20mins. After sometime, it was time to start the race.
Start to 2km
When the race started, many people took off without knowing how long it would be. But we kept a steady pace and kept going. One of my classmate, Vishwa, wanted to run with me, but I told him, we would be running fast. He caught up to us in the start and was always just in front of us. He was looking over his shoulder and always trying to keep up with us. When we were finishing the 2nd km, he saw a few people walking and he started walking too. My father told me, those people will not last too long.
When we had started, I had a mild pain near my hip, but father kept telling, don't think about it. After sometime it went away.
2km to 4km
There was now a long straight stretch and not too many trees. We kept going, I was feeling ok, I had warmed up and we were on pace. We kept going, but I didn't realize I was talking at lot. Soon, there was a place where there were many trees, and there was slight uphill. There we caught up with one of my father's friend, he took a few pics and kept coming with us. I was trying to keep up, I was taking long steps and running.
In the downhill, my father told, if you can we should go fast. I tried going fsater.
Last 1km
When we came back near the start area, there was one last km to go. I tried going as fast as I could, by now we had finished 4kms in 21mins. I saw one of our old bus mates, Madura, she told go on, you can do it. This motivated me and I started picking up pace. At this point, I felt that my legs were moving on their own and I can't control them. I told my father, I won't be able to sprint in the end. But when we were there, there was small bump, when I going down the bump, my legs just kept going faster and faster and we crossed the finish line in 26m:41s
I felt happy that I completed the race. My father then went accompany my sister to the finish line. I watching the people who were finishing. Few of the 5th graders I know were finishing and I went to cheer for them.
We all had breakfast of chow-chow bath and banana. I was happy that I did the training and got good results.
(Ps: Pic and video credit Rohit, who is on his 251st consecutive HM)
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