Runners High

Runners High is a training program for runners by two of the best runners in town, Dr. Rajat Chauhan and Santhosh Padmanabhan. Dr. Rajat also runs a sports clinic, Back To Fitness(B2F) for the sports persons in town. Santhosh is also associated with a charity, Asha , for which he raises money while he runs. While it sounds funny to many people that you pay to get training on running, to be skillful at anything training from an expert helps. So for me Rs.2000/= for such a training was worth every paisa knowing their credentials in running. While there are running groups in Bangalore, there weren't may organized running trainings available and this looks pretty good.

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It was kicked off with a short run this morning at Lalbagh Botanical Gardens, which is one of the biggest parks in Bangalore. We have good bus service from where I live to Lalbagh, which made it a car-free run. The rest of the sessions would be at Jayanagar 3rd Block at 6AM on a week day and Sunday. Santhosh explained the training details and what they have to offer and it looks pretty comprehensive. Our short term target is the Sunfeast 10K run on 10 May, 2009 in Bangalore. But I would definitely want to continue the training for a half marathon and potentially a full this year or the next year.

I am looking forward to the training though I have a sore throat to start with. I have been training mainly based out of reading "Galloway's book on running" and since Galloway doesn't run programs in this part of the world, this is as best it can get in Bangalore! The book really helped me go beyond 5K by using the Run-Walk-Run method of Galloway and to stay injury free throughout the year with a 10K, 21K and 25K runs. So this was a good time to really get some hands-on training from the experts instead of just reading books.