Good luck to both of them, I strongly recommend everyone to try marathon, it will change your life, specially, 21 kilow meters one.
You would stop taking for granted anything which is comfortable or nice in life. And water wud never taste the same. Cheers On 1/12/12, avinash shahi <[email protected]> wrote: > All the best to both of them for forthcoming sunday's run. > These marathon participants put the ability in disability > Published: Thursday, Jan 12, 2012, 8:00 IST > Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA > > A regular at the annual Mumbai Marathon, Sanket Bhirudh has not let > the fact that he is visually challenged stop him. He ran the 6km-long > stretch in 2010 under the Dream Run category. A year later, he wanted > to take part in the 21km Half Marathon but couldn’t because he was a > minor. > > This year, Bhirudh, now 18, will get to fulfil his dream at the 9th > edition of the Mumbai Marathon on Sunday, January 15. > > Bhirudh, who has participated in state and national level para-aquatic > events, is determined to excel in the Half Marathon category.For the > last four-and-half months, he has been leaving his Mulund home at > 4.30am, thrice a week, to reach Marine Drive to practise his running. > “I have the stamina to do it, so I thought ‘Why not’?” Bhirudh added. > > A total of 38,775 people have registered to participate in the > marathon; last year, 38,400 had participated. > > Also participating in the Half Marathon is Vinod Rawat, who has an > artificial limb attached to his left leg. Rawat, 37, a marathon > veteran, will attempt his third half marathon on Sunday to promote the > Jaipur Foot technology that he has been using for the last 15 years. > > When he was six-years-old, Rawat lost the leg in an accident in > Bhandup while returning home from school. “I was hit by a truck and my > parents did not have the money to pay doctors to re-attach the leg; it > had to be amputated,” he said. He used crutches until he heard about > the Jaipur Foot. > > “It has given me a new life,” Vinod said about the Jaipur Foot. “The > day I started using it has been the turning point in my life. My > purpose in life has changed.” > > Vinod works as an agent for a home loan company. He also does power > lifting. He practices his running whenever he gets time off from work. > On Sunday, his wife and one-year-old son will be among the cheering > crowds at the marathon. > source: > http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_these-marathon-participants-put-the-ability-in-disability_1636443 > > > > > > > -- > "The best things and most beautiful things in the world Cannot be seen > or even touched. They must be felt within the heart." — Helen Keller > > Avinash Shahi > M.A. Political Science > CPS JNU > New Delhi India > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > -- “The waves breaking on the surface draw all the attention, but it is the current beneath the water that determines your direction.” Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
