Run Mumbai
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“Come on 63215. Come on. Run, run fast”
A Gujarathi Man with his family was cheering up the participants of Dream
Run and we were enjoying it. We were also cheering up them with our presence.
It was a different pleasure being there to watch Marathon and seeing everyone
running for a cause. The cause may be different but yes they were running with
Mumbai.
The day started with fresh air and fresh mood. It was my first time to be
a part of Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon, at least being a watcher. Hence I
was very excited. We had decided to meet near Churchgate Railway Station. I was
going directly from office after Night Shift. And still I was not feeling sleepy;
it may be due to excitement. I reached CST Railway Station and saw many people getting
ready for Marathon. The Marathon Fever had started. Everyone was getting ready
to run with Mumbai apart from their daily routines. I saw many of them during
my CST to Churchgate walking journey. Each one of them was very excited and
ready to run. Everyone was carrying Mumbai spirit with them.
The marathon consists of five races such as Full Marathon race of 42.195 km,
Half Marathon of 21.097 km, Dream Run of 6 km, and Senior Citizens Run of 4.3
km and Champions with Disability of 2.4 km. This marathon is just not an event
for world’s leading athletes; it is an event for all of us including Bollywood
Celebrities, Sports personalities, business tycoons and other noted people.
I reached the destination and started enjoying Dream Run with my friends,
cheering up the Runners and clicking photos. There were balloons, banners,
shouts, drums, lots of good cheer and yes few of them were also talking or
chatting on their cell phones. Runners were from children to old age, some of
them were fit and some of them obese as well. Some of them were running for
first time, some of them were habitual of running. Some of them were slow, some
of them were fast. We saw a man running with artificial leg. We saw some of
them running with wheel chair. Employees from many organizations also took part
in this Dream Run and they were promoting nice messages such as “Save girl
child”, “Run for Education”, “I am water, save me”, “and Segregate dry waste”
etc. Colorful Mumbai Marathon was going on with them.
There were mix emotions while watching them running. I was feeling happy
by looking at those happy faces and feeling sad as I was not running with them.
We say that walking is the best exercise but we don’t get time to walk in our
so called busy life. A day is of 24 hours and we still not get time to spend at
least 5-10 minutes on walking to keep us fit. I think, marathon is just a
reason to wake up all those lazy guys and ask them to walk, run daily. Take a
look at our fitness, and make us more fit. Enjoy fresh air early morning and
increase the stamina. Get ready to face the world and achieve many things in
life. In and all, achieve happiness in life and spread it with others.
I am motivated by just watching them running and will start running
daily. This time I was just a marathon watcher but next time will be a part of
them. This time I was just motivating them but next time someone will motivate
me by saying “Run Mumbai Run”, and I will be running with Mumbai.
Sunit Pendse
22nd
Jan 2014
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