Feet on The Street 5K

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Feet on the Street is a new running event from Runners for Life(RFL), Bangalore's vibrant running group - 5K for people to get started and may be join the longer runs that RFL organizes every fortnight(may be monthly now with a FOTS every month). May be the "Feet" should move around town and have this event at various locations to encourage running.

This run was at Cubbon Park, centrally located and the park is blocked for traffic till 8 in the morning. It was not a serious run, no timings and timing certificates which is the norm for RFL runs. I hopped on to a BMTC bus and got back in a Volvo(which was shared with just another passenger!) and made it a car-free run and I hope to make my runs greener by cycling to the venues sometime later.

This was also a charity event for Dream A Dream, a charity organization based out of Bangalore - I have been trying to contribute to their Dream Football program for sometime, but except for couple of visits to the play grounds, I haven't been able to make any serious contribution.

I finished the run in 32 minutes - I was hoping for a 30minute finish, but the general tempo was very easy. Next race in town is the Sunfeast 10K due in May - again there are some general elections that might come in the way like last year.