Elusive sub 50 minutes in a 10 km race
2015 was a great running year for me. It was also my 2 nd year of running, naturally, I was excited as a child, looking for a running event online and registering for a race almost every month. TCS 10K being the most popular 10K in the country, it isn’t surprising I registered for it too. At that time, I was training part of PaceMakers running group, TCS 10K was considered a ‘key’ race in the group, and even now is, runners train hard to get personal best performances. I used to be very diligent with my training then and wanted to clock my best time as well. A few Time-Trial runs on the actual race route building up to the event went well, 55:25 on May 2 nd , 53:27 on May 10 th , managed to run the race on May 17 th in 52:26 . That was the last and the only 10K race I ran that year, as I was sufficiently distracted running half marathons. Fast-forwarding to May 2016, the same rut, 2 Time-Trial runs before the race, one on Apr 7 th , 49:52 and another on May 1 st , 50:29. I att