A day to rejoice

What an event!!!what a day!!!Those who participated ,will cherish the moment for ever and those who didn't, can never forgive their silly ignorance.

10,57,8000,426....This golden sequence has a great significance in my life when it is represented with "km,minutes,total participants,rank" in one-to-one fashion.My rear shin bone muscles aching,fat and fibres in my tummy fighting against their death,both of my shoulder movements trying to expand the chest muscles,my skull getting hotter and hotter,but mind put a full stop long before to the thought of losing the NIKE Tee(supposed to be awarded to the fastest 1500).Started at number somewhat around 4000,completed 2 kms with ease.Till half way(5km),people crossed me like a factory-outlet Ferrari passing a second hand bulldozer.Then gradually i realised the practical use of number system with units.As the distance increased,my plan of completion focused on units in a decreasing fashion..from km to m to cm ,same with the scalar part of least count.Then there was only one truth i knew,"i am moving or spinning or rotating,something driving me or dragging me forward,but still i exist on earth."cheer leaders making noise with funny gestures,volunteers passing us water bottles as if they fed up keeping that waste product with them,photographers twinkling their small magic boxes and the remaining lazy bangaloreans cheering the runners with high pitch voices was a better confidence booster compared to the commanding speech of Barack Obama.Boss,continuity is neither stable nor independent in nature.You need to be a master in LIMIT to decide CONTINUITY of something.In application to human beings,Ur WILL-POWER makes it a dependent quantity.That's what happened.I noticed a mere no. of participants walking while breathing the whole atmosphere in and out when The nearby digital metre flashed "8Kms COMPLETED". I decided to keep my pace up when noticed two beauties (one from Spain and other from Switzerland) overtaking the air resistance ahead of me .My Nike shoe cladded legs came into life and crushed every bit of dust under it and my body was being launched forward to pave the way ahead of others.The timer chip flashed "57mins 6 secs" when i hit the 10km end line.we had photo sessions with legends like maurice greene , hugh jones , Reeth abraham...etc.Post run,Foot massage and vegetable treat were awesome.

I came, I fought n I conquered the SUNFEAST WORLD10K.Now it's time to wait for the courier guy to knock my door before handing me the brand new NIKE Tee with "I am a finisher" tag shinning with colourful letters...:).

P.S.:- There was a huge mistake made in the event's database by the organisers while filling details about me,for which i am suffering since my biological physique defies my gender shown in the below link .Hope you have faith on my words and don't take the matter seriously ...:),"Running Timing details"

Nike face-off corporate challenge

This mini marathon of 3km was The first ever corporate challenge i participated in.It was organised by run for life club sponsored by Nike at kanteerava indoor stadium,Bangalore.This morning,competition was between SAP vs SASKEN and I2TECH vs HP. Each participant had to register at their respective company counters to get a bib number.You can feel the charm of running on nike shoes if you want,but for that, one has to hand over his car key/mobile in eachange for that pair of shoes.Only 44 guys turned up from sasken to compete with 65 runners from SAPlab.The rule was that,all the 109 guys will start simultaneously,but the fastest 30 guys of a particular company reaching the end point will be the winner.The trainer lead us to the entrace gate opposite to Sheshadri Iyer library in cubbon park.We were taught about worm-up sessions and the map of race circuit.There were throat crackling cheer ups from each team.We were told to held a baton while running.I didn’t know who crossed me or whom i put back.my concern was to maintain my pace,that's it.There were sunfeast biscuit packets, cups of glucon D mixed water and mineral water to energise young muscles.The fastest runner completed it in 9 min 55secs.I finished in 11min20secs and came 6th.As per the rules of probability,30 out of 64 guys(sap lab) have a greater possibility to win than 30 out of 44(sasken) and It happened...:-(...Then there was certificate distribution ceremony presided by a Nike trainer(skinny lady from pune).






Following the principle,famous-brand-then-good-product,It was assumed that the race will be organised somewhat in special manner as NIKE rules the sports world.But it turns out to be a bit pathetic as there was no certi for guys finishing within top five/ten spots over ally,Though there was accolades for guys finishing last from the team-work-decides winning team.There was small confusion about the circuit in the middle of the race,so many guys lose time for that.The feel good factor was when photographs being taken while one was going to crush the photographer,face to face.After all,you know it is fun to run in a group,watching your colleagues surpassing you and you maintaining coolness recalling the famous cliche,”slow and steady wins the race”.



Credits to ALAmeen for the pics .