I am one of those people who function better by writing things down. One day, I realized that most of my notes don’t have to be private, so here they are - my second brain. Be warned that, if you stumble upon something here that doesn’t make sense to you, it isn’t meant to!
Experiences of a Delhi Half Marathon runner.
Last Sunday, I successfully completed the Delhi Half Marathon! Anyone who is acquainted with me knows very well that I am not an athlete even by the most lenient standards. It was only natural that this news came as a big surprise to all my friends- even I was shocked to the core when I crossed the finish line! The race track was 21.097 kilometre long and I took 3h20m to finish the marathon (the maximum time allowed was 3 hours). It began at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, went on to a little further than Central Secretariat via India Gate and then returned to the starting point. The race was supposed to start at 7:10am, I reached the starting point at 7:20am and that’s when I first erred. I missed out both on seeing Shah Rukh Khan and Bipasha Basu kick off the race and on seeing the entire participating crowd of more than 30k people (I later read in the papers that this crowd included the likes of Rahul Bose, Gul Panag, Anil Ambani and Siddhartha Mallya!). Moreover, we were given timing chips which were to be fastened to our shoes. Since I reached the venue late, I didn’t get time to tie the chip (I had it in my pocket all the time) and that is how I erred for the second time- it was only in the evening that I found out that the chips are not so sensitive as to get detected from such height as that of your pocket. None of my race day times- split or net-were noted. ...