RUN ka FUN ;)

Well! So many things to write about , but I have become so lazy nowadays :P But this one event , I have to put it down here :) I am talking about the SUN FEAST 10 K which was there on 23rd MAY , Sunday . I had registered for this event more than a month before the event day . I usually run for 5K  . "Usually" doesn’t mean that I have run many times , but only twice :D SUN FEAST 5K last year and 5K run in IISC arranged event . IISC was a nice experience because of the superb campus :)

Well as I was saying , I registered for 10K thinking that since there is more than a month's time to practice , I would be ready for the run by 23rd may . But the practice never materialized due to my laziness :P Till the last moment I was not sure about my participation. 

On the D-Day , I did a stupid mistake. I wore new pair of shoes and my feet got scratches and boils due to that before even I could start running. But when the run started , I forgot about all this :) Loud music , thousands of cheering and excited runners around me , and I started running :) 

But I couldn’t run for long , big time problems with my shoes . Once or twice I even thought that I will remove my shoes and run bare feet :D I didn’t do that though ;) So I walked the whole way . 

There was one person who was running , though he had only one leg . Another was wooden . But he almost finished with me :) He was so active and excited about all this :) He was saying that he was going for 15,000 feet trekking in Himalayas . Hats off to him :) . And one thing which was a little embarrassing for me is the volunteers all along the way who were cheering the runners . I was way behind all the runners , and wherever these people were there , they were shouting at me to RUN :D At one place , somebody started shouting into the mike " Run Rashmi Run " and so on . Guess they got my name from the running number that I was wearing . I felt like shouting at them saying " I don’t need any cheering , let me run( rather walk ;) ) at my own pace " :D.

So somehow I walked and reached the finish line , though my timing was really bad ( over 2 hrs ) . But my goal this time was to finish the run and I did that :) . 

But , there are some lessons learnt 

1.Don’t run with new shoes :D , guess if I had consulted any of experienced runners , they would have already told me this ;)
2.practice at least for a week if you are planning to go to any event like this , daily practice would be even better :D

I guess if I follow 2 with new shoes , then 1 will be followed automatically :D

We reached back home fully tired , then slept for the rest of the day :) Hope to have lot of such great days in future too ;)

"The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start."
-John Bingham, running speaker and writer

Well I guess I can say that the above saying goes well in my case ;) And here's my certificate for finishing the run :)