Running-Game Changer
I shall call it as a Game Changer. At mid-age, where community calls it a Mid-age crisis, I found Marathon as something that would challenge my age and my ageing as well. It all happened with hitting the mat first time in January 2014, when I ran Mumbai marathon for the first time. I finished it in 2 hours and 25 minutes for finish half marathon.
The athlete inside me that had always been in me since school time was a little surprised and lot more shocked. How can I be such a poor performer? But a little determination and a lot of practice helped me improve but only by 10 mints. However, the problem lied somewhere else.
It was my my running weight. I was weighing whooping 83 Kgs and all my peers called me fit. Amazing, wasn’t it! Then, I met first dietician of my life, who also happened to be a runner. So before hitting the next marathon in Delhi 2016, she chalked out a diet chart to reduce weight by 15 kgs. Well the group motivation and the morning run raga made it all happen smoothly thereafter. I finally finished Delhi Marathon 2016 in 1.55.50 hours! Now that’s I would call a dream run for any marathoner. Its an achievement in its own way that doesn’t come with money or stature. It only comes with perseverance, guidance and motivations from your peers. This achievement is something that you have truly sweated and earned…. earned its yourself!
But hey! The icing on the cake is yet to be realised. Running and practising Marathon got me lot of friends who existed in a totally different orbit. An orbit of health, happiness and positivity.
They are your Game Changers in life just like running Marathon…. A Game Changer!!
Long live the spirit of running.
Very well said Mr. Agarwal “Its an achievement in its own way that doesn’t come with money or stature.”
You definately set a great example for new runner like me.
Very well written