Briefing session & Nehru Park run

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At the very outset I'd like to welcome everyone on board L&S Marathon Team. As I mentioned in my briefing session on 10th Feb 2017, the idea is to make you better than what you were yesterday. We'll constantly keep pushing it. It's not going to be a rat race. We all are going to do it together. One step at a time. And at all times, keep miling and smiling.

Below I have put together the YouTube videos I wanted you all to see. Here they are again.

Put your speakers on full volume and enjoy. The first one is about the race I put together in Leh, La Ultra - The High. This defines me. 

For the longest time, we have been told what our limitations are. Then comes along a challenge, which tests the limits. Sane people out there, call it Impossible. A handful of crazy people out there force that same 'Impossible yell I'm-Possible'.

Below is a video two months after I had started a 'Couch to Six km' program 4 years back. What is amazing is listening to these ladies and what difference running made to their lives.

Join GOYA (Get Off Your Arse) Move-Mint, which is not an event, it's not even another movement, it's to Move with a Mint, i.e. with fun. These ladies started 3 years ago. Chrsitine, who is now 62, has done a couple of marathons, others have done half a few times in some amazing times.

This one is a bit embarasing but good fun. 

This video has been put together in public interest to make you aware of a certain Rajat who claims to be a runner and Sports Medicine doctor. He also claims to help ladies (& men) to become more active. Couch to 6 km program has been put together by Back 2 Fitness (www.b2f.in) in collaboration with Women's Health & Prevention Magazine.

You don't necessarily to get to the finish all the time but you need to start to have a chance to get there. I had planned to run 126km but things didn't turn out the way I had planned. Over years I have learnt that the journey is far more important than the destiny itself. On this particular day I made lot of school kids realise that they all were special. 

Rajat had planned to do 126 km on the occasion of 126yrs of his Alma Mater, Wynberg Allen School. He managed to only do 100.5 km. But he made sure that he finished his 100km where he had learnt it all, Allen flats at Wynberg Allen School.

Never assume anything. It'll surprise you that things we assume to be correct because rest of the world does can be very wrong. The regular hamstring stretch that you would see people do in parks and in gyms are wrong. Here is the right way to do it. 

Lot of people think they are stretching their hamstrings when they have their leg up on a raised platform and have the pain going down all the way down the leg. That exercise is excellent at causing you sciatica,. You'll have the back and leg pain that you didn't have before.

And a simple exercise like squat can be very useful.

Courtesy sitting on chairs, we have forgotten how to squat. Start squatting to become better at running and other sports. Start now.

Now coming to the first face-to-face session, we'll be meeting tomorrow at Nehru Park at 8 am.  We'll meet at 2nd parking from either side on Niti Marg. It's a big parking there.

 

Please come in comfortable sports shoes, shorts / track pants, t-shirt and jacket. Cap and sunglasses if need be.