My Running history

Actually I don't remember when i started long distance running, there were days when i used to run for 15 mins (around 4-5 years back) just for refreshing myself and that too on road in our society only (D-6 Vasant Kunj). Sometime my roomie Arun Joshi join with me for running, I used to run either in morning or evening and that too not always. But I remember Joshi telling me tales of Shakti Kapoor, Anil Ambani and few other amateur runners, those words from him always encouraged me to run.

And I remember those days, when we have parties and i used to go for a 15-20 min run before that, everybody says u r crazy but its only Joshi who never discourage me.
These short runnings of mine goes on and off for another year or so, then Joshi and Sandhu got married and Joshi went to Hyderabad. I felt alone, i started running for 50-60 mins regularly and now I start liking it, for me missing a run is like missing something important.

March 2005: I left Amsoft Systems joined Alcatel development India, I never thought of increasing the distance, for me 10k is fine and i keep on doing mine same distance until Shailendra (My team leader) inspired me to run a marathon. I start looking for marathons, and i increase mine distance from 10 to 12-14k and started cycling as well.

In another few days I found Hutch announced their first ever half marathon in delhi, It seems they did this just for me. I registered there and run mine first half marathon(october 2005) in 2hrs 8min without much effort. then I run Mumbai half (jan 2006) in 1hrs 55min, delhi international half marathon(feb 2006) in 1hr 50min. After races i started following mine regular routine of 10k daily and sometime 21K on weekend. But In 2006 I completed mine hutch half in 2hrs 4min far below mine best, may be because of not running fit at the time of race.

24K is my max limit until i met another Arun in mine life, and this time its ARUN BHARDWAJ only ultra runner who has represented our country in many ultra running competition. He stays very near to mine place, I know GOD has sent him to help me only. He is the one who told me that there is no maximum limit to running. He is the one who encouraged me to start this blog. I enjoyed running and discussions with Bhaiyya (Arun Bhardwaj), but I still miss other Arun (Arun Joshi) he is in Japan these days with his wife(Seema bhabhi) and little Anika.