Pace of a Runner's Mind

......How a 90kg Fat Guy ran 4,000 metres ......

This blog is about my First run .. the Spirit of Wipro Run .. 4k Run

The day started as usual until  I reached Office and Opened my Wipro mailbox to find a community mailer stating about a run named as SPIRIT OF WIPRO RUN  (SOW) ... like any other Wipro'ite I too was curious to find out what this Run was all about.I immediately inquired to my colleagues and they informed me about this annual Run that Wipro organizes for its employees ,  family and friends.

Leaving apart the formal details about the Run .. I happened to glance upon the shorter version of the Run .. which stated that the total run length would be 4,000 metres ..  I just blinked my eyes twice just to be certain ....and it was beyond doubt that the run was indeed a 4k Run ....my Mind just immediately paced downhill wondering if I could ever even run 1k forget about 4k.I looked at the big flab of flesh that had formed around my stomach ...that was a sitting example of my years of hard labor and struggle ...  all the thoughtless things I had consumed ... thanks to all the junk food .... ultimately treating my stomach and body as a Garbage .. to be precise even worse ....which is  usually refereed to by my friends as TYRE / POT STOMACH .... what ever the name be .. i felt bad that i could not even dream about such a run.But a day or 2 later ... i thought why NOT? my mind paced uphill and i decided come what may .. it is my goal to complete the 4k Run.

The first few days since i decided to do the run was filled with complete doubt , fear , inhibitions and total lack of self confidence.Then i discussed this with my Gym instructor who advised me that it was indeed possible.Thanks to google it ultimately  reaffirmed my faith  when i read about a women who ran a marathon after training for it day & night by only eating McDonalds.For the first time I felt happy that eating junk fast food was not bad after all.

Leaving that apart , a training  session was scheduled by Wipro with well known coaches brought in from the best training institutes in the city.... but I was too lazy to travel the 10km's from my home to the training spot.So i decided to take it up myself.First time a sense of responsibility to do and complete something I have not done in my whole life aroused in me.I practiced very hard on tread mill and on the near by grounds to get a feel of the D day.But alas the D day experience was totally different. The fact that I was a slow and steady runner meant more time was taken up in completing the run.I practiced to hit 2km in an average of 45 minutes.But still this was only half the distance of the run and I was sweating and gasping for breath every time I tried to hit 3k.My perseverance level was put to test and as obvious i was failing miserably.The D-day were getting closer and it just added to my woes.Finally I was forced to take up the "What the F*** attitude ??" .. and the day before the D day I had managed to run just 3.25km.As per my new found attitude I decided to take it cool and gave a middle finger to the Nishan who was scared and had loads of inhibitions about the run.


On the D day I woke up late .. just late enough to miss the counter closure time that distributed the orange Spirit of Wipro Run T-shirts.However I was able to convince a co ordinator that I was on time and she ultimately managed to give me the T at the end of the race as she had other duties to attend to now.But I was totally thrilled about the idea as the run was more important to me than the T shirt.

At the start of the Run .... Wipro 'iites in Action

The Run started with a nadaswaram team playing their usual tunes (Which obviously was very very weird Idea  and may have been wipro's attempt at cost cutting !!!) .. Leaving apart the terrible sophomore before the start ... the roads were totally blocked with all armed policemen covering us from either sides .... as though we were a huge entourage of PM ... there were ambulance on stand by in case anyone screwed up ....the run started and I decided to maintain my normal course irrespective of the fact that most of the people along with me ran as though they were in a 100 meter dash.I decided to just let go of those people whom I found later.... panting and gasping for water.However I managed to finish the run in style.My fears and inhibitions had f***'d off by the time I reached the end and I easily managed to cover the 4k run .. thanks to the over enthusiastic crowd who made me feel the run was shorter than expected.

And finally I looked at myself with a sense of satisfaction...!

The whole experience was a  beautiful memory  !

Once I had covered 2km ..  no one was there...Every one was behind !

Post the run ..  a chill out  Session!!

Successful / Jubiliant ME

Our campus !

!! It is not always wise to be wise !!!

Standing your Ground when the world is UP in arms against you !

Standing by your convictions .. standing by what you believe in when the whole world turns against you ...  the responsibility to take ownership of the consequences ... and ultimately you understand that you are the master of your own world.Of course it is wise to take advice but ultimately the decision is yours and yours alone as GOD/NATURE/ONE POWER has given you this life  ..  it is your canvas where you paint the image called life ..... and celebrate it ...  no one knows what happens hereafter ..  it is only one thing that knocks your mind in the death bed ..  are you happy and content with the life you lived ??? It will just take only a second to realize that ..and only you know the answer to that .. only you ... The beauty persists only when you carve out your way on the murky road .. a road of uncertainties ...and then you learn the hard lessons of life .. most of them self taught and self observed ...

May we all be blessed by the power , wisdom and courage to do what will truly be inscribed in our canvas called LIFE.Let us not let fear and inhibitions stop us from touching the canvas.Being wise most of the times  ; sticking to the common road which is safe for sure but would not have your watermark.

Free flow of Nature .... Journey of a biker ...

The Corn plants were there....

They were always there waiting for the Sunshine ..waiting for the days to come.Little did they know that a biker was on his way from a far distant land, as crazy and as wanting to be as free as them.

When he saw them dance to the breeze..he could not go..but was pulled back to stay.. little nay did they know that he was embracing their callous attitude to the oncoming sea of gushing cold air.... he loved to see them dance ... move their flimsy yet strong body to every nuance of the wind.....happily celebrating beauty of life....Here I was seeing them dance and my odometer had just touched 300 thousand meters... even after I had been traveling for more than 5hours...

The biker thought that like the biker the corn plants too had a great life transforming journey so far..a journey in search of a difference .....A journey to experience the differences of life all alone ....the corn plants knew that their end was near and they were so sure about their end that they did not waste even a single day ... The biker wished if we Humans too thought and felt the same way !!!


All of the people passing by in their buses and cars just gazed at me mostly wondering what I was up to..Their obvious reasoning described me as Insane and foolish enough to stand there in that place and write,smile and enjoy the beauty of it... For a commoner passing by this was just a daily routine show .. a show which he rarely even recognizes even if it happens daily... a sight which he had gotten so used to in his life that he had forgotten what a breeze meant....for him it was another casual day of a not so splendid life....

....A Biker's Odyssey ...

 I was driving alone ... it was what I thought for a moment.Then with no time the thoughts breezed my mind that there were Stars too watching over me....I looked up and through my helmet shield I could see the Stars amidst the pitch darkness all around...I was happy to see Stars who stood out strongly and alone , brightly showing themselves without any fear.The fear was only human..as that of mine .... It never is an image of Nature .. Nature is so fearless and Strong..Like the huge trees that stood there when I raced past them,the wind that was blowing on to me without any fear and showing its full force....I was reminded of the might what we are surrounded by...We still have a lot to seek and  get inspired from our real mentor and guide ...."GOD" as some call as .... "Nature" some believe it to be ....."Existence of Evolution" defined by legends .....What ever the name may be, the beauty and strength with which it showed itself was palpable....And all along the pot holes along the roads kept reminding me that I was only a mere mortal and am part of a clan who are not very farsighted and who are riddled with fear and inhibitions.....That was when I woke up to reality.... That I was a traveler who was here to learn,unlearn, relearn the beauty of LIFE...

This was how my 1600km journey started !