I had participated in individual 10K run as part of last year’s Puma Urban stampede. I did not originally intend to participate in it this year as I had graduated from 10K into half and full marathons. However, my organization had subscribed for corporate relay as part of the event and 3 of my team mates asked me if I could join them to form a mandatory 4-member team. As a good team player, I happily accepted the proposal.
I had dropped out of Hyderabad Triathlon scheduled on October 11th and this one was scheduled exactly a week before. So, I took it as some compensation. Out of the 4 members in my team, 3 (including me) had completed Hyderabad full marathon and 1 had completed half marathon. So, a 5K run would be easy for all of us. It was a flat course and I clocked my personal best 5K in 27:07. Our team was first among 20 teams that participated from my company and would have been among top 8 teams out of 84 overall. An overall satisfactory result.
