My experience of running my fist half marathon.
I participated and completed the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon 2011 in the Half Marathon category.
I had kept my participation as secretive as possible due to self doubt.
It wasn't an easy job by any means to pull a near 90+kg body over 21 km and it become even more difficult after getting a blister, the size of the moon, mid-way through the race.
Quiting never crossed my mind though, thanks to Lance Armstrong's* following motivational verse:
"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."
I did complete the run.
Also the song that kept me going was Livestrong by Wideawake on loop.
At the end, all that mattered was that I finished this feat in a little under 04 and half hours.
Though not competitive by any means, it was a personal feat.
* - Lance Armstrong had not come out with his infamous cheating revelations till that point & was an idol.
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