Team building at the Rock and Roll Half Marathon

Regular readers of this blog may remember that the FirstRain team likes to take on physical challenges together - like last year's AquaBike. Well this year (yesterday) ten of us completed the San Jose Rock And Roll Half Marathon and I am very proud of them all for taking it on and every one of them for completing the course.

It was a perfect day for it. The FirstRain team and 15,000 people lined up at 8am in downtown San Jose to try to conquer the distance each in our own way. Hats of to our controller Eugene who ran the race in 1 hour and 42 mins - we were still walking in the first half when we saw him running the last stretch and cheered him on from across the road. Also hats off to Ana, David and Dennis who did their best distances and times - very impressive.

A few of us walked it, some in more pain than others, and YY comically awarded me the "Stubborness" award for doggedly finishing with the slowest time of the team. After the race we retreated to BJs for much needed food, water and alcohol (purely for medicial purposes of course).

Next FirstRain race is a 7km in Delhi on November 1 - the Great Delhi Run. David is planning to be in Delhi that week anyway so he's challenged a team from our Gurgaon office to run it with him. We'll see how many sign up for it!

Now we have to decide what race we'll chose for 2010 in California. Frankly I found the half ironman aquabike last year was easier to finish than the half marathon this year so I'll be lobbying for something in the water next time.

The crowd at the start of the race

Me leaning against the post for relief at the 9th mile marker

Rehydrating and refueling at BJs after the race