Rock n Roll Marathon, Las Vegas, Dec 4, 2011
First night-time Marathon. The strip was shutdown for a few hours in the evening / night for the 44000 runners – 39000 of them running the half. Crowd support was very sparse. The organizers should rethink the strategy of merging the marathoners with the half-marathoners in the middle. That certainly slowed down a number of marathon runners. I ran a strong race. Last race for the year. Ran 12 marathons and 6 half-marathons in 2011. Planning to run the first ultra-marathon next year – in Cape Town, South Africa (Two Ocean Marathon).
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I am Mohan Iyer, once a couch-hog but a recent convert to the community of runners. My wife and I live in Laguna Niguel, Orange County, CA, with our dog Wrigley.
We have two sons – Sravisht “Chevy” Iyer, and Visraant “Visu” Iyer. The elder one is a Doctor from Harvard Medical School, Boston, and is an Orthopedic Surgery resident at Hospital for Special Surgery in NYC, and the younger one is an undergraduate student at Northwestern University, Evanston (Chicago), Illinois (class of 2012). Sravisht completed his undergraduate in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore in 2007.
I am a graduate (M.S.) in Computer Science from Depaul University, Chicago, and my wife has a post-graduate degree in Economics from University of Madras, India.
My career profile includes management roles in IBM Global Services, Cap Gemini, Accenture, and Wachovia Securities. I am currently in a senior IT management role in a large investment management company in Irvine, California. My wife works for Chase (Bank) in the OC area.
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