With the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic ripping through the country it was no surprise that TMM 2021 will NOT happen on 30th May 2021 as had been announced couple of months ago. After the first edition in 2004(then call SCMM due to SCB being the title sponsor), all subsequent years the event has been held on the 3rd Sunday of January. Therefore this year the race should have happened on 17th January which ,ofcourse, was not feasible. Procam announced the May 30th date for the event in late Feb after the first wave of the pandemic was subdued. It will probably be another 2-3 months before a new date is announced for TMM 21. Personally, I think it is likely that the 2021 edition won't happen and the next TMM will (hopefully) be in Jan 2022.
This leaves me with a dilemma. Should I further prolong the already longest ever gap between running two full marathons till I can run TMM21 or some other FM race? Or should I run a self supported FM on my own? Since running my second FM in April 2004 I have run more than a marathon or an ultra marathon every year between 2005 and 2018(except 2015). Since Malnad ultra in Oct 2018 I have been able to run only 2 FMs - TMM in January 2019 and January 2020. After restarting running in November 2018, post recovering from peroneal tendonitis in the right ankle, I have managed to do a 30K+ run every month since Dec 2020 as training for TMM. Depending on how it goes over the next few weeks(the pandemic and the second vaccination shot) I hope to run a 4:30-4:45 FM on 16th or 23rd May.
