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 :)

Bikhre bimb - an amazing play

We had been to this play last Sunday. Off late I have watched few plays and am loving the experience of watching plays :) Its not that I didn't watch plays before , but very rarely used to go to rangayana in Mysore. The frequency of watching plays has increased now. We watched " Jugaari cross" and "Bikhre bimb" on consecutive weekends ;) . "Bikhre bimb" is the Hindi version of "odakalu bimba" in kannada written by Girish Karnad. Its English version is " Heap of broken images" .

As we enter the theatre , we see a TV studio setup on the stage and a big screen as well. This is a nice way of letting the audience start thinking about what might unfold on this stage :) . Its a solo act by Arundati Nag. This was the first time I saw her in a play and she is just amazing :) 

Coming to the play itself , it is about a kannada author Manjula Nayak who acquires instant fame and money by writing a single English book , which is a work of genius. She comes to the TV studio to talk about her book and once that is done , she is about to leave when she hears her image talking to her from the big screen.Then the image starts interrogating her about the book , her past , and skeletons start tumbling out of the wardrobe. Whole sequence of play which follows is just amazing. I kept wondering as to how difficult it must be for the actress to sync with a recorded sequence playing on the screen..

The emotions involved in the relations of Manjula with her partially paralyzed yet highly intelligent younger sister Malini ,who was staying with Manjula and her husband , with Husband ,the dilemma and tragedies  involved in the lives of these 3 people when they were living together and at present , is brought out beautifully.Though there are negative shades in each of these characters , you can empathize with each of them. Though there is a single actress carrying off the whole play , you are taken through the emotions and feelings of all the 3 characters and you kind of know and can visualize the other characters very well. 

I started off thinking that I will write out the story of the play. But then thought , I shouldn't spoil it for others who still haven't watched the play :) Do watch it if you get a chance. I am waiting for the kannada version to come , want to watch the original ;)