Day 1 - I am out of shape

Ever since my nephew Karthik Ravichandra ran the Silicon Valley Marathon on Oct 25, 2009, I got motivated to run at least the Marathon/2 within the next 12 months. Looking at the current state of my fitness, it is going to be an up-hill-task. The other motivation comes from my colleague who regularly runs 6 miles in an hour of so on alternate days.

It was challenging for me to run even the first mile on the treadmill. With much difficulty, I ran ( read "walked") for 20 minutes and the treadmill odometer read 1.3 miles. I ran at an average of 4mph. But really, at that speed, I could only brisk-walk. I have to keep the speed at 4.5mph in order to call it "running". I felt that I am really running only when I adjusted the speed to 5mph or higher. Unfortunately, I could not sustain that speed for more than one minute before I started losing my breath. One day after the running, my thighs are sore.

Sure enough... I am out of shape.