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<\/p>\nA hectic work trip on Friday.<\/p>\n
Slept at 3 am on Friday.<\/p>\n
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A Ridiculously packed Saturday.<\/p>\n
Slept at midnight on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Slept 8 hours in 48 hours.<\/p>\n
Paid the price on Sunday.<\/p>\n
I head out for my 20 km run at 5.30 am. Amidst self doubt I plod along. I was sure that this was one run I would not finish on my feet. At the 3.5km mark, Vishal and me passed by Reshma, Jasmine and Pankti. Jasmine reminded me of my previous blog, where I had ignored the weather and had just run. Today, I had forgotten my own words , as I looked for excuses. Humidity. Heat.<\/p>\n
Thank you Jasmine. Your words took me far. I kept repeating that mantra in my head, as we reached the 10 km mark. There we met Rahul, who pushed us both, at in incredible pace. Soon enough, I ran out of wind. Memories from SCMM 2012 cam<\/p>\n
e flooding back as I felt my legs solidifying and I walked up 400 m on Peddar Road. There at HSBC, Rahul was waiting to pull me along. And then there was no looking back. We raced back at a sub- 6 pace\u2026\u2026I overcame a few moments of complete breakdown, as my running partners did not let me stop!<\/p>\n
65 mins to go 10km<\/p>\n
59 mins to return\u2026including walking and all drama!<\/p>\n
20 km.One of the hardest runs of my life.<\/p>\n
All these days, I was confident and self assured. But today a small crack allowed the flood gates to open! The wall came crashing down. Weather and incline became factors in my life again! I allowed it all to get to me. I created room in my head for doubts to creep in.<\/p>\n
After this crackling finish, Vishal and I walked back to car, ready to crash. But not Rahul. He went back for another 4km, after his 21 with us, to pace Abbas and Dev who completed a whopping 60 km run in this treacherous weather! These stalwarts completed an Ultramarathon! Hats Off!<\/p>\n
Every day can\u2019t be a good day. I know that. So I hang in through the bad runs,hopefully my next run will erase this memory. Reflecting on the Sunday run, I look for positives. Alteast I was out there. Running. I fought the exhaustion and my ghosts. Post run, \u00a0I was on top of the world, floating, as my legs were numb!<\/p>\n
I learn, on the days when you don\u2019t feel like a run, are the ones when you need it the most. There is a different sense of accomplishment we feel when we complete something which we never thought is possible.<\/p>\n
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“Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your s<\/em>pirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.”<\/em><\/p>\n – Tim Noakes\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Professor, runner in more than 70 marathon and ultra-distance event A hectic work trip on Friday. Slept at 3 am on Friday. A Ridiculously packed Saturday. Slept at midnight on Saturday. Slept 8…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2013-2014","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/262909_468184209868508_1291709235_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5lWKK-8m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therunningsoul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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