Maiden Half Marathon
Having knowingly given my usual Year end / New Year posts a complete miss this time, I'm here to write about something that I had taken as a New Year resolution this year. RUNNING! Frankly I did not even know about the existence of marathons here, in India, until my first ever volunteering experience at the Chennai Trial Marathon 2015. That event instilled in me, a new respect for the runners. And ever since, I had desperately wanted to start running marathons. But running a marathon is no child's play. You have to train properly with utmost discipline. It took me a whole 2 years to gain that discipline and train for a marathon. In 2016, when I first started to run, I would hardly run (read jog) for 2.5 km and be exhausted already. I continued this, and still at the end of 2 months, I had not improved one bit. This was sure taking its toll my mind, and I gave up. I wasted the whole of 2016 doing not productive in terms of fitness. Come 2017, V started pushing me to st