Mindspeak

When I say "First" is unforgettable.... yeah I mean it.!!! You have guessed it right too..  First Crush, First Love, First Child, First word of the child and the story continues.... For a runner, the first run matters too!!! A Chartered Accountant by Qualification, A Teacher by Profession and a Runner by Passion defines me perfectly. Till date I have done 2 full marathons (TMM 2019 and 2020 in sub 5 hours), few half marathons and many 10km runs. But still what remains fresh in my memory is my first 5km run in 55 minutes - yeah you got it right, a perfect example of "A Slow Runner". To learn the dynamics of running from close quarters, I completed Certificate Course of Long Distance running from American College of Sports Medicine and Exercise Science Academy. To practice the theoretical learnings, I coach at Runburn Coaching. (Runburn started with my Friend & Mentor - Mr. Devendra Mane aka Dev) This blog is my view point of running and the factors whi

You may call it by many names - Mecca of runners, Carnival of runners, Holy Grail of India or whatever. You may like it very much or you may dislike it. You may appreciate it as life changing event or You may speak bad about the event. But one thing is for sure, it is the most talked about thing on the 3rd Sunday of every January annually. Runners look forward to be a part of such event and this is like the Annual Board Exams for students or preparation of Final Accounts every year for business to know his growth/decline over the previous year. This year was no exception. TMM2020 has total registrations of over 55,000 runners from across the country. Every aspect of this event is mammoth and care is taken to address to each issue minutely but the gigantic nature of event makes is impractical for perfect execution. (Will come to it a bit later in the blog) Before the mega event, the Bib distribution was a smooth process spread over a period of 4 days from Wednesday, 15th January

The city of Igatpuri is famous as the fog city Also it has waterfalls allover in its vicinity My first trip happened searching a race route in daylight  Three of us driving through highway looking some good sight An unexpected right turn took us to this road we now run A dam, lot of mountain ranges, waterfalls en-route were real fun Our day was made as we got the route for conducting the race Majority of the work related to race got rolling for many days The first of the many works included conducting route recce on a Sunday This helps to get the actual feel experienced by runners on the race day Our event being decided in October, made us plan our recce in rainy season We were mesmerised by the scenery around and were in awe beyond imagination Nature had blessed the entire region with greenery and waterfall The tourist visited the place on weekend to enjoy the same in rainfall The inaugural edition of the Igatpuri moutain challenge was a huge hit The r