Running beyond dog-tired

I started training to run a marathon a few months back. Ok its not exactly training, since I dont run every day of the week. I just run on Sundays coz thats the only day I can manage to wake myself up early. Anyway I am taking part in the Marg Give-life Chennai marathon (http://givelife-chennaimarathon.com/). So wanted to see if I can push myself atleast close to 21kms. So me and a couple of my friends met up in IIT and started running at 6:45 (planned to meet at 6:30 but I was late since I was searching for my new sneakers, which appears to be stolen). Anyway we started and were surprised to find that a dog joined us. This dog followed us around through IIT running parallel to me mostly. At times it would run in front of me and look back to see how far back we were. Anyway we were kinda struggling to get the first 6kms out of the way and this dog managed to do it with ease at the same time picking fight with other dogs, tracking down two motorcycles and even managed to chase a deer around.

We started on our second round and this dog also came along, I was glad it came along coz I had planned to take a picture of this dog which accompanied us in the run. It ran with us for a total of 9kms and then looked at us as if we were nuts to keep going. Obviously it got tired of running around for 9kms with no purpose. So it said bye to us and went on its own way. We continued going beyond the point of dog-tired :). All the time i was dreaming of finishing first by virtue of photo finish (head first, or hand outstretched). I managed to get to 18kms but took a time of 2hrs30 minutes. I am atleast confident that I can finish the 21kms run on aug 31st, but my hopes of winning the 10lakh first price is gone. Only to find out that one of my friends had a similar thought too :). Anyways how we do on aug31st will be updated later (provided we do good).