Spirit of Marathon.....

Spirit of Marathon

This is an amazing video, the spirit of Marathon. After watching this I actually sat down and thought "why do I run?" yes this is the same irritating question that has been asked by a lot of people, and today I ended up asking myself. Its been a long way now, I am a 4 time marathoner with my personal best as 2hrs 10 min. I know this is not any great timing, now I look back with all that 2 years of training, getting the runners high with each added on kilometer, every month the increase in my pace, and indirectly an increase in my stamina as well. When I started running I used to run at 7 km/hr and that too was pretty tough, everything is in the mind everyone can become a runner but this requires a lot of patience, patiently working towards a goal, patiently trying to run faster.

I had a pathetic timing in my first marathon I completed 21Km in 3 hrs, yeah I did get the runner's high that time as well, yes with that pathetic timing, it was a big achievement for me. Running 21Km continuously wasn't a joke, and believe me when you finish a marathon you are not the same person, your mind is not the same. So I come back to the question, why do I run well to be very truthful I myself doesn't know the answer, it all started with losing weight and coming back in shape but somewhere I got addicted to it. Running is like alcohol, once you start you get addicted to it, with every run you get that "Runner's High" and that high stays for a long time, it happened with me after Mumbai, I was in that high for a long time good one week!

But Apparently I did not get that high after completing the 52km Ultra, probably because I ran Ultra with the RFL guys, and anyways every weekend I keep running with them, secondly the Ultra was organized near Hasserghatta lake thats on the outskirts of Bangalore , and it was a trail run. I loved the environment and surroundings, but somewhere down the line I missed the cheering up, the spectators, the Janta! Which was there in Mumbai.

Well nowadays I drag people out of their beds in the morning and take them to cubbon for running, I was successful in getting two new persons to running, yes so this proves one more point, that running is contagious!!! Now running is an important task for me in a day, it happened with me last week, i didn't run for three days, on the fourth day when I was driving to office I saw a person running on the intermediate ring road in Bangalore, I just wanted to come in my running shoes and start running.... I missed it, that was a point I found out that how important running has become for me. But running is only one aspect on the weekends, it is followd by breakfast at Airlines / Koshy's with the Red Dragon gang and all tha haha and masti! The other benefit of running is you can eat like a pig, as I am a big foody, so now I can eat anything without thinking twice about how much calories it has, or how much oil it has!


song Today: Jalta hai jiya mera bheegi bheegi raton main.....