Lotus petal is a purpose. A mission.
150 folks came together to join the cause last year and helped raised valuable $$$ that are being put to use as we speak.
More kids joined school, they continue to get fed breakfast and lunch (well fed kids = happy kids = engaged kids = educated kids).
Clean school, engaging environment, engaged/mission-filled teachers = thriving educating community.
More needs to be done...this little spark that Kushal lit, needs to be a chain reaction with multiple Lotus petal eco systems popping over around India, and engaging under privileged towards better futures.
That brings me to topic of this post.
Planning do to a 100 miler on Nov 3rd, 2018 (or perhaps a 100km, training progress will tell...). In that process, hopefully folks will join me in sponsoring 100$ or more per mile. That gets us a minimum 10k for Lotus to fund initiatives that directly impact kids.
100 mile is out of my league...way out of my league!
To give you a perspective, this will be a 100 mile (160km) race. Participants must finish under 30 hours and must get through cut-off times to be allowed to continue in the race (too slow, you are out as early as 20 miles and if you missed the last 85th mile cut off by 5 minutes -- too bad, try next year :-).
Since Feb'18, I started testing waters, and started building "base mileage". Just 15-20 miles a week.
Check. Legs carried through.
That quickly changed in March to a sustained "cumulative fatigue" build up. Cumulative fatigue basically translates to running on "tired" legs....so think a 7-10 mile on Friday night, 7-10 on Saturday and 7-10 on Sunday. Goal was to get to do 30 miles within 48-60 hour window.
March - Check...weekly mileage around 20-25 with 3 runs a week on Friday/Saturday/Sunday.
April - Check....weekly mileage around 30, with 3 runs of 9-10 miles each on F/S/Su.
And now we are in May...countdown starts.
24 weeks to 100 miler!
Stay tuned (and wish me luck, I am gonna need it, lots of it!).
150 folks came together to join the cause last year and helped raised valuable $$$ that are being put to use as we speak.
More kids joined school, they continue to get fed breakfast and lunch (well fed kids = happy kids = engaged kids = educated kids).
Clean school, engaging environment, engaged/mission-filled teachers = thriving educating community.
More needs to be done...this little spark that Kushal lit, needs to be a chain reaction with multiple Lotus petal eco systems popping over around India, and engaging under privileged towards better futures.
That brings me to topic of this post.
Planning do to a 100 miler on Nov 3rd, 2018 (or perhaps a 100km, training progress will tell...). In that process, hopefully folks will join me in sponsoring 100$ or more per mile. That gets us a minimum 10k for Lotus to fund initiatives that directly impact kids.
100 mile is out of my league...way out of my league!
To give you a perspective, this will be a 100 mile (160km) race. Participants must finish under 30 hours and must get through cut-off times to be allowed to continue in the race (too slow, you are out as early as 20 miles and if you missed the last 85th mile cut off by 5 minutes -- too bad, try next year :-).
Since Feb'18, I started testing waters, and started building "base mileage". Just 15-20 miles a week.
Check. Legs carried through.
That quickly changed in March to a sustained "cumulative fatigue" build up. Cumulative fatigue basically translates to running on "tired" legs....so think a 7-10 mile on Friday night, 7-10 on Saturday and 7-10 on Sunday. Goal was to get to do 30 miles within 48-60 hour window.
March - Check...weekly mileage around 20-25 with 3 runs a week on Friday/Saturday/Sunday.
April - Check....weekly mileage around 30, with 3 runs of 9-10 miles each on F/S/Su.
And now we are in May...countdown starts.
24 weeks to 100 miler!
Stay tuned (and wish me luck, I am gonna need it, lots of it!).
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