The Zeal To Grow

This is the second time I'm doing a Full Marathon (FM). And when compared to the first one , this is way less dramatic (only 2 months training compared to 4 months and no injury scares/doubt of participation) and hence the post itself is much smaller. Marathon Thoughts It is October. I guess the registration for SPCM 2020 has started. I'm thinking. It's been around 2 years since I did my first FM. I did a Half Marathon (HM) in July (DRHM 2019) and achieved a respectable timing of 2.04 hours. Should I improve my HM timing or do a second FM ? I did my first FM in 5.15 and I thought there is definitely good scope of improving that time. Panneer (friend of mine and an ultra runner) was also pushing me to do FM in SPCM 2020. Okay, I I will do another FM and probably bring my time  under 5 hours.  But the training needed for FM is too long and much difficult when compared to HM.  By Googling, I found a short 8 week (2 month) training plan for FM . I made slight modi

Marathon Thoughts It was the first week of August 2017. My last run was on January 2017 after which I had knee pain and was diagnosed with meniscus strain. So I was mostly on rest since then, in the sense I did no running and very less badminton. I t was towards the end of July when I saw a youtube video of David Goggins . He was a navy seal and he explains how he had to do a 24 hour 100 mile run with shin splits and stress fractures in the last 20 miles of the race. It was appalling to me the way he pushed himself that last 20 miles. I had always dreamt of running a full marathon after having done 5 half marathons. David Goggins was doing 100 miles while a full marathon is just 26.2 miles. Am I not strong enough to do a full marathon? I had thought myself to be a tough person and running the marathon would be a good enough test. So the motivational talk by David Goggins was a good reason, that implanted in me the idea of running the Wipro Chennai Marathon 2017 . Another re