The Long Beach Marathon

I took on running this year and trained with the LA leggers for the Marathon. In the middle of the training when I had run 10 miles in the last training run was the Long beach marathon. A very nice scenic run by the beach. I decided to do the half marathon - it would be my first long distance run in an event. The path is shown in the map. Purushottam had finished his training by now and was doing the entire marathon.

We drove to long beach early in the morning. The run started from the convention center near the beach. We got a small RFID tag to our shoes, which would be used to time our run. It was an amazing experience with people cheering as we ran and the nice breeze by the beach though it got a little hotter later in the day. I finished the run in 2:34:05. While, the time was much higher than what I wanted to achieve, this did nothing in making me feel happy that I had run my first race!

They gave me a medal for running. It was amazing achievement for me.