Running is a passion which I know each runner who runs long distance understand. When I started running I started it just to make sure my husband gets into some form of workout. But I don't know when this workout became my passion. It changed my life in many ways. Running gave me sense of self confidence , I started totally believing in myself , I loved that ME time, I get when I am running. I don't know when the group I run with became my best friends , we became each other's support system. We loved sharing our happiness our sadness , our fears and ever feeling we felt. The best feeling is each runner is encouraging each other before ,during and after the run. When we see someone giving up during the run,some co-runners will give us a word of encouragement and you are back in action. Each runner is looking out for each other. We don't care if we know each other or not, but once we start running we all become a different breed of people who share a common passion, and that passion we call is RUNNING . It's wonderful to see people who get up early in the morning to stand on the sides of roads to just cheer us runners, making sure that we get enough water , fruits , sweets and best of all lots of love and encouragement. We runners feel so proud when we hear so many people cheering for us ,it's that love that helps us during the most crucial time of the run. Running is truely a mind over body sport. After 14 -15 km when our body starts giving up its this cheering we hear around us makes our mind active and our heart happy which actually helps us to complete our run.
When we reach that finish line the hugs and the applauds we get gives us a high that you can never imagine it is feeling that can be only understood when it is experienced. Honestly ,I think it's that high that makes us come back for run again and again and again.
So before I go back to checking my tshirt and shorts, checking my bib number yet again, and seeing if my shoes is still in its place let me take this opportunity to thank my coaches suhas sir and samson sir for giving me this confidence and training me for my run, Sushma and Nitin for introducing me to running, to all my running friends who have become my closest friends, to the traffic police and mumbai police for making sure we runners are safe , for standard chartered for this wonderful experience, to my family and friends for their support . Last but not the least the people out there who get up early in the morning to just cheer us, without all your support the run would never be complete.......now let me check my bib again..... Thank you all .
