Friday, September 18, 2009

Sydney Marathon, Final Countdown

I am zealous of Sidneysiders, but glad that chose to run in such spectacularly beautiful city. As you would guess I have been visiting all the major attractions in the city and that included the famous Bondi beach. Fortunately my hotel is in downtown so transportation is easy to assess. Yesterday evening listened to Sydney Symphony supporting Grammy winner, Jazz artist Dianne Reeves at the Sydney Opera House. Not to be side tracked the training schedule continued, the last run was yesterday evening around 6 miles, probably through the most picturesque urban route I will ever run. It went through the Royal Botanic Gardens, the trail is right at the edge of Pacific Ocean and affords some amazing views of the Sydney Sky line and Opera House. Early in the day picked the Bib number from running expo. Tomorrow some light stretching and hopefully will take some rest before the big day on Sunday. There was one more incentive visiting Sydney, got to meet Ajay a college mate who now lives in Sydney. He has been a very generous host.

A few hours after I get on with my run, 3 of my friends back in US are running their maiden Marathons. Bharat Pathakjee is my senior colleague, planning to retire next yr along with Mohit Uberoi and Ravi Vir are all running the Fox City Marathon in Appleton, WI. Good luck to all of them.

4 Comments:

  1. Amy said...
    Good Luck on your Marathon. The pictures look beautiful
    Anonymous said...
    Rahul,

    All the best for your Sydney marathon. You have been a great inspiration to us novices !

    Mohit
    Jit Sengupta said...
    Rahul - Best of lucks for the race! I know you will do great - I am looking forward to a personal best, and all the details of the great run.

    Jit
    Julian Davis said...
    Good luck for your marathon, Sydney is a nice place.I think you had a nice time during the journey .

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