OM Run Training at Campbell- LG Creek 16 Miles - Details

A week of hype in the Bay area on possible snow precipitation at the Sea Level/ Valley floor. OM Run team decided to avoid potential early morning frost bite and hence started the run at 9 AM (instead of usual 7.00AM) on Saturday Feb 26, 2011. By Golly, there was not a trace of Snow flake in the valley floor though we could see some snow covered Hamilton mountains east of  SJ. We had bright sun shine by 9 AM and the Campbell Park was well crowded with runners. We followed Galloway run-walk routine of running for the 16 Mile round trip with 4:1 ratio. If you can click open the link below you will be able see the elevation at the ~7.5Mile distance from the start. I would think it was about 5% grade for about 0.5Mile. (I still havenot provided the Garmin 405CX details which is what I used in creating this link)

OM Run Training at Campbell- LG Creek 16 Miles by vpresolve2008 at Garmin Connect - Details

We also took a group photo of all the OM Runners who were together at this point. Not bad, everyone in the picture is showing nice smiles.  I wish I had taken one more at the end of the entire  run to compare the smiles after 16 miles!

Lexington Reservoir was almost 90% Full and a lot of High School Rowing teams were having their practice.

I was hydrating well for this run even though temperature was in mid 40's or less. On the way back, I also ate a pack of POWERBAR Strawberry Banana flavored GEL. I think it gave me good energy supply thru the last mile and I did not feel too tired. It took me several years to get used to Gels and Gu. I used to get upset stomach in my early days of training in 90's and now I think I have overcome those and on the contrary I do see great effect on my energy level when gobble up a pack or two on a long run like this. I hope to use for the real marathon day which is still approximately 60 days away

As usual, once we all made it to the end of the run, we did stretches for 10 minutes!!  What a relief!

Thanks to OM Run volunteers who supplied us Gatorade /Hydration  at the 4th mile and at the start/end point in the park!! Bagels were delicious as well, little bit of Carbohydrate sure helps.

14 Mile training Run at Campbell Park Los Gatos Trail on Feb 17, 2011

Rain or Shine, TRAIN. Thats the mantra every trainee must have to chant who wants to accomplish successfully the goal of completing Full, Half or 10K/5K races. Feb 17th is one of the few  days this winter season in Bay area we had rain, snow, storm, winds. That did not stop several committed OM Runners assembling on this Saturday morning at 7 AM at the Campbell Park and start the planned 14 Mile run to the Lexington Reservoir and back. After 15 minutes of dynamic warmup exercises, we hit the trail. Ranga Ranganathan, our fearless South Bay  Mentor-in-chief led us thru the rest of the training run  on a Galloway's 4:1 run/walk schedule.  Forces of nature were in full swing thru the entire morning and we could see only a few runners in an otherwise busy Park.

If you want to see our 14 mile run on the map please click the following link and you will see the beautiful trail
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/69087600

I will provide more details on my 405CX Garmin Heart Rate monitor in a different page on this Blog..

February 2011 OM Run Training Schedule

 Om Run schedule for   January 2011, February 2011

Why blog OMRUN?

Running has been a big part of my life since 1989 and I have trained and completed  five 'Big Sur Marathons' in the 90's. Later, since the beginning of year 2000, I found great comfort in training for half Marathons as they did not require as much time commitment as the Fulls, I did several Half Marathons in the last  decade. Beginning of this year, I decided to take a  big running challenge of training and participating in a Marathon by mid year. I have maintained a very healthy mind and body due to active physical exercises including running.

CMSJ's OM RUN http://chinmaya-seva.org/events/index.php?page=omrun-2011 is now an annual event started in 2010. I was fortunate for having mentored in the first year for 5K, 10K and Half. This year I decided to join again the 2011OM RUN  training both as a mentor and also training myself to participate in Avenue of the Giants Full Marathon in May 2011 http://www.theave.org/Info.htm

Further, I thought its cool to blog my OM run activities which I believe has an important function in helping me work through thoughts.  Maybe this blog doesn't have a big idea but it is about what I find interesting in life - Running 

So, this blog will be about all these things: OM running, weekly training, some related photography,  Videos and of course, a space for personal expression.

Hope you will find it interesting and informative