The Voodoo Doll Medal!

I came to know about TRORT - 007 through one of the running groups in Facebook. As the name says, this was the 7th edition of this event and its on one of the toughest route of Bangalore. There was limited seats for this event with 3 categories FM, HM and 10K and I registered for the 10K race. 

I had not fully recovered from the previous week's 10K (Bengaluru Challenge 10k) so was not aiming for new PR, my only target was to enjoy and complete the race. 

The route was very scenic and the weather was in my favor. This was the first time when I was running and clicking pictures on the way. This route had pretty good elevation both ways. It was like when you are moving towards the end point from half way the low elevation from the start point became the high elevation. 

The Route

This race was bit different, the loop was formed using a single road, so there was two way traffic on the road, the one who are running toward the finishing line and the others who are running towards the half mark from the start point. Runners were cheering and talking to each other, I also spoke to fellow runners which I don't do it usually. Well, conversing with fellow runners during run has dual benefits one you don't get bored when you are running without your iPod and second you get your picture clicked on the way ;)

On the way back for completing the rest half

With run-walk-run and clicking pictures I crossed the finishing line with satisfaction of completing the yet another 10K consecutively in second week.

Certifies that I completed the race ;)

The best part was yet to come which was the Tribal Medal and the special yummy laddoos the organizers had made for all the runners.

Tribal Medal

This is a short story of how I added the first Voodoo Doll Medal in my collection.

My First Pinkathon!

It's my Birthday Month and a perfect time to start my first post of the year 2015.

When I started running I came across Pinkathon from Facebook which is suppose to be the only race where only women are allowed to participate and the cause behind this race is to promote women’s health and fitness. It also aims to raise awareness about breast cancer, its causes and prevention.

As I had started running only from mid May 2014, I missed the opportunities to run this race in year 2014, but was sure that will be running this race in year 2015 and luckily this happened to be my first race of year 2015, what a perfect start :)

I had a gap of almost two and half months after my second HM, before I thought of registering for this event. So I registered for the even on February,07 and by February,18 it got confirmed.

The bib collection day was scheduled on 20th and 22nd of February, I decided to go on the first day itself, as it was a Friday the only option was to go in the morning, the location was Forum Mall Koramangala. I reached at 11:15 and was able to locate the counters, it was easy to find as there were bunch of ladies of all ages varies from kid to granny's on the venue. 

The arrangement was good, there was different counters based on the race category you had selected, and a special counter for group registration guys. This time Pinkathon had 3k walk, 5k run, 10k and 21k timed races.  Figuring out which queue you need to be in was confusing but soon after talking to few ladies, was able to get into the correct queue.

Everybody at the venue were looking very excited, they had come either in groups or with their family. Every few minutes was able to see the click sound or flash light. They did have a bike which was painted fully in pink color, it was looking kinda cute.

My turn came and I received my little pink bag which had bib, pink sister t-shirt, badge and a cute cap!

Little Pink bag with goodies ^_^

On Race day, (February'22) I started very early thinking there will be too much traffic and I may not be able to get the parking, I managed to reach the venue one and half hour before the reporting time. It was still dark and I was one of the early birds at the venue. 

There were very few people and few event photographers were present, slowly the crowd started to build up and people were as usual warming up for the race, clicking group pictures, I did meet a girl who was running her first race, and we exchanged few words and decided that we will meet after the race is done. 

As I had Lumia 720 and its camera sucks in low light, was thinking Pinks doesn't have a single good pic with the pink Jeep, but while surfing, I came across this pic of me from a Facebook post (: 

PC:   https://www.facebook.com/Flashbulbzz-Photography-335168289916845/timeline

Pinks in Pink Jeep

Finally the wait was over, announcement took place, after the speech was over the warm up sessions started. It was nice to see so many women exercising together. 

The Venue

Flag off took place and we started running slowly but soon I picked up my pace and started running with constant speed. It was really overwhelming to see the roads filled with only women for the first time.

Busy Running

The best part about this race was there was individual runners, family, corporate groups, NGO's and also teachers with differently abled students were present for the race in different categories. They all were equally excited for the event. I was happy to see them. 

The weather was good and encouragement from the people on the way made me keep my pace. Soon I crossed the finished line and collected medal and it was time to click a selfie (: again!

Selfie Time!

So this is how I did my first Pinkathon - India's biggest Women's Run!