2022 plan

 2022 has started badly for physical races due to ongoing 3rd wave(omicron) of the pandemic. For the 2nd consecutive year Tata Mumbai Marathon is not being held on the usual 3rd Sunday of January. The 2021 edition did not happen. Hopefully the event will happen later this year. I am planning to target my BQ in 2023 at Delhi and towards this was keen to run the event this year to get a feel for the flat course and the weather. However the event has been postponed from its scheduled date of 27th February. I am now training to run in the US in May as part of a 4-5 weeks holiday there(pandemic situation allowing). The two marathons that I am looking at are the Potomac River Marathon in Washington DC on 1st May and York YMCA marathon and half marathon in York, PA. Both of them are small marathons with less than 1000 runs and both are mostly trail. Of the two York seems slightly better  - however it will be in the middle of the trip and so the legs wont be as fresh. Still I am leaning towards and will target a sub 4:15 time. Other than this the year is pretty much open ended. Assuming races restart  I will target a sub 4:05 in one  towards the end of the year. 

2021 : Come back year

After lowest ever mileage of 870Km last year , 2021 was a good come back year with approximate running and cycling mileage of over 1500Km each. My TomTom GPS watch went belly up in early November and the Garmin 310XT that I have been using since then is not uploading my workout data as the Ant+ stick is not being recognized by the PC. Given that I restarted longer distances in November 2020 and was still in base building phase, I was happy that TMM 2021 got rescheduled to May 30th and began training for it. Due to the 2nd wave of the covid pandemic Procam announced the postponement of the race in the 2nd half of April and given the situation they could not give a concrete date.  Since I was anyway on a training schedule for May end I ran a slow self supported marathon on 23rd May. After this the focus shifted to increasing pace with the first goal being a sub 2 hr half marathon and then eventually a sub 4 hr marathon. I achieved the former on 14th August. (Sub 4 hr marathon got pushed to 2022). In the following week I achieved my highest ever mileage of cycling and running combined clocking about 200Km over 7 days(63K running and 128K cycling). Was happy to end the year with a full marathon at Goa on 12th Dec though falling far short of target time . Was fairly consistent with strength training 5-6 days a week - 3 days of virtual training with personal trainer S, 2 days in the gym for UB and LB strengthening and a day of resistance training with therabands. Body weight wise started the year at about 59Kg and ended at around 56.5Kg with quite a bit of fluctuation between 55 and 57.5 on a day to day basis. 

Overall a satisfying year with the peroneal tendonitis issue  hopefully put to rest on which to build on in 2022 towards a possible BQ  in 2023!!