training update two oceans marathon

[amit]

dear sweder, glaconman, el gordo,

thanks guys,

i cant wait, you know India is a unique country, we normally lack the killer instinct and we have never been athletes, all we want to do is eat food, make money and watch TV. can you imagine that my time of 4:41 in the mumbai marathon got me into the 189th place. a time like that would put me in the 39999th position in NY. furthermore the first 40 places in that 189th are held by the africans. so you can understand where we, as indians stand as far as such events are concerned.

when i decided to run three years ago, the family's reaction was that i will fall sick and hurt myself. and it was tough to hang in there because as i used my body for the first time in my life, there were actually quite a few injuries. But the truth is, I realised that i love to run, i love the way i feel when i am exhausted, i love the sence of achievement, i just love it, i love to be up at 4 am and see the colour of the sky change as i run. (the truth also is as glaconman points out, i need to finish the run before the billion cars hit the roads by 8 am) and my wife has been an incredible support, after the first two years she started to run and we completed the prague marathon together last year. she will now run 21k in africa on 22nd march.

i will be delighted to meet up with you guys hopefully for bombay next year. the 6 k dream run draws around 20000 runners, the half has been growing and i think reached 9000 this year, the full starts off with about 2000 and gets great support. but the event is growing. there are enough water stations but i have friends stand all over the place for support. you guys show up and I promise you a run you will never forget.