Mercedes Marathon, Birmingham, Alabama – Feb 5, 2012
Picked Alabama to count one other state down. The city of Birmingham looked like it was hit with day-time curfew. Empty streets, run-down buildings, boring downtown – Couldnt find anything that would validate my decision to run in Alabama. The race morning was very cold – colder than Chicago lakefront on a February morning. Very unimaginative course – 2 loops of 13.1 miles each through downtown Birmingham and some “suburban” neighborhoods with only a handful of spectators lining up the streets. Next race is my first ultra-marathon – 31 miles in Fortworth, Texas on Feb 26th.
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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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