Missed today's practice due to my Bangalore trip. Next practice run on Sunday.

The good point in today's run is that I can feel my body getting acclimatised to the rigours of marathon training. Usually I start feeling the tiredness set in at the 10km mark but today I was able to do it with much more ease. At 13.5 km , though I had the energy to go further, i purposefully stopped. Didn't want to over exert. Running on tarred roads at the campus is beginning to show its effects. Today I'm feeling a searing pain in my right knee..... i know its taking a pounding but I feel constant practice would make it strong enough and should get used to it. It also reminds me one more thing...gotto get a new pair of running shoes.

Damn ! Just the single blotch in my weekend. I slept thru the early morning alarm ring at 3:50 a.m and missed my sunday morning marathon practice. The gang, from what I hear, had done 31 kms of running . I would never have matched that but would've done 20 kms . Gotto remember to hit the sack early today to wake up for tomorrow morning's practice.