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Crash and Burn at REVEL Kulia on the Big Island of Hawaii

Posted on January 28, 2020by Gaurav Parekh

My training over the past 3 months had gone well. I was happy with my pace and my form. I had no injuries to worry about. I was confident of qualifying for Boston at Revel Kulia on the Big Island of Hawaii. Unfortunately, it was not to be. My finish time was a more than […]

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Boston Marathon 2019 Race Report

Posted on April 19, 2019December 15, 2019by Gaurav Parekh

After running all 6 marathon majors in 2015, 2016 and 2017, I took the year off in 2018. Fortunately, in my last marathon in 2017 in Azusa, California (race report), I qualified for Boston. It wasn’t a PR but I did well enough to beat the cutoff time by over 5 minutes. I started training […]

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Phoenix-Mesa Half Marathon – Race Report

Posted on February 16, 2019April 25, 2019by Gaurav Parekh

I hadn’t raced in over a year but that changed on February 9, 2019. I ran the Phoenix Half Marathon. It was a training run to prepare for the Boston Marathon. My plan was to run the first 4 miles easy (8:05 pace), pick it up for the next 5 miles (7:55 pace) and then […]

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Canyon City Marathon 2017 in Azusa, CA – Race Report

Posted on November 11, 2017December 15, 2019by Gaurav Parekh

After I ran the Chicago Marathon all gimpy after a bike accident a week earlier, I wanted to run a fast race. The normal recovery time after a marathon is about six weeks but the Canyon City Marathon in the eastern LA suburb of Azusa seemed like a good idea. I would run back-to-back marathons […]

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Chicago Marathon 2017 Race Report

Posted on October 11, 2017December 16, 2019by Gaurav Parekh

Two Marathon Majors in 2015 (Boston and New York), two more in 2016 (London and Berlin) and two more in 2017 (Tokyo and Chicago); now I have all six Marathon Majors under my belt. I ran the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, October 8, 2017 in an official time of 3:49:40 and actually had fun running […]

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Race Report – Moonlight Madness 5k

Posted on August 6, 2017December 15, 2019by Gaurav Parekh

My Chicago Marathon race-plan had a 5k prep race during week 7 of training. I looked at the weather forecast only to find that it would be triple-digits in Phoenix over the weekend. I thought about driving up to Flagstaff or anywhere cooler to run a comfortable but settled on an 8PM Friday-night (August 4, […]

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Race Report – The Tokyo Marathon 2017

Posted on March 1, 2017December 16, 2019by Gaurav Parekh

Tokyo is the most impeccably clean city I have ever visited. I was in Japan about 15 years ago for a business trip and I remember everything being neat and tidy but not like this. I went out of my way to find fault in Japanese discipline, Japanese hospitality, Japanese punctuality, Japanese cleanliness. I failed […]

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Sedona Half Marathon 2017 Race Report

Posted on February 8, 2017December 15, 2019by Gaurav Parekh

Looking pretty comfortable but reigning havoc on #mindbodysoul The tough Sedona Half Marathon is in the books. There was nothing flat about the course. Nothing. Either you were going up or you were going down. You can blame the gorgeous red mountains surrounding the course or simply blame gravity; either way you will be running […]

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Race Report > Arizona Rock ‘n’ Roll 10k 2017

Posted on January 16, 2017December 15, 2019by Gaurav Parekh

On Saturday night, we went out for Vietnamese food at Saigon Nites with Rahul and family. We ate early. Earlier on Saturday, I ventured to the race expo to pick up my bib. Instead of running the half-marathon, I was running the Arizona Rock ‘n’ Roll 10k race as a training run for the Tokyo […]

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Race Report – Desert Classic 5k – Second Place Overall

Posted on December 19, 2016December 15, 2019by Gaurav Parekh

I wasn’t expecting a good race. I knew I hadn’t fully recovered from my bout with chest congestion last week. What I didn’t expect was to run my slowest 5k ever. Of the 16 5k races, this one is by far the slowest; not by much, but the slowest. I peaked in 2013 when I […]

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