Training since Dec and amidst Covid-19 lockdown
The last race I ran was the Tata Steel Kolkata 25K mid Dec. I kept the momentum going in Dec, happened to clock my highest ever mileage (430 km), I was pretty pleased with how my training was coming along for Tata Mumbai Marathon (TMM) on 19-Jan. As my luck would have it, the week of Jan 13th, I contracted a pretty bad eye infection and was not able to run the Mumbai Marathon. I do want to run a marathon in Mumbai one day. I had mentally prepared myself for drop in training volume starting Feb due to my new job that I started on Feb 4. I went about with my training as much as I could without stressing about the miles I would log. If I compare start of the year until mid May, I ran ~11% more (about 1,286 km) compared to last year (1,152 km). Lockdown & work from home seemed to have helped keeping the miles ticking. Training during Covid-19 lockdown, I had somewhat taken running in GKVK for granted. I can't believe my last run there was on 13-Mar. Starting 15-Mar,