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KTM">Finishing the KTM

October 23rd, 2008  |  Published in Humour, India & Around, Living, Running, Sports, Sports & Adventure  |  12 Comments

Mostly, I remem­ber the last few kilo­me­ters of KTM. Because I’ve never been so relieved that it was done. But then I say that after every run :-)

"Runners just do it - they run for the finish line even if someone else has reached it first."  ~ Author Unknown

Well, I prob­a­bly wasn’t the only one : with the sun shin­ing in all its glory : at times dur­ing the 3 hour affair I could feel it pen­e­trat­ing into my skull (through my hat) and burn­ing holes and radi­at­ing out. I am not kid­ding. It was so HOT. We didn’t get an over­cast day as we had hoped. Instead we had clear skies and the blaz­ing sun and a delayed start : as a result of which most folks suf­fered quite a bit. The full marathon­ers were still run­ning way into the 5th and 6th hour and I can only say that I am filled with admi­ra­tion. I couldn’t have gone a mile beyond the 21!

In fact the last 2 kms or so was quite bad. I had devel­oped a bit of a headache (I usu­ally do when exposed for pro­longed hours to the sun) and a blis­ter on one sole. So, I was lit­er­ally ambling along wait­ing for the cor­ner to appear.

That’s when I caught up with Rajen­dra Patel.

“How much are you run­ning?” he asked.

“Only the half,” I replied.

“Oh good, good. You know, this is com­mend­able. Espe­cially car­ry­ing your weight.”

Hmm. Not my weight again!

Before I could respond, he added: “Now we can run together.”

So we ambled along together. Mean­while, Rajen­dra Patel decided that he needed to keep up the con­ver­sa­tion. He was an ex-Army guy and had been to Naga­land. He had met sev­eral Boras (and were they my cousins?!), and he lives in Pondicherry now.

It was actu­ally due to him that I got com­pletely dis­tracted by my painful aching sore mus­cles that had had enough. He insisted I should not beat him at this stage and I agreed.

So finally, after 2 hours and 58 min­utes of the heat and the sun, we crossed the fin­ish line together.

On an aside, the KTM route was beau­ti­ful : when­ever I had a chance to look up and around! Green all around with a chan­nel of water run­ning along­side you and fields to both sides : an absolutely idyl­lic coun­try­side scene which made me feel at times that I should have been there with a cam­era instead. A per­fect loca­tion to take a stroll or even go on cycling. The only traf­fic was in the form of buf­faloes and a few vil­lagers who seemed really amused at us sprint­ing, dart­ing, ambling and walk­ing down “their” territory.

So that was the KTM. The Ultra comes next!

~ Sud­hir has some great pics
~ More on the marathon
~ Manoj and his marathon effort
~ Bhasker just keeps run­ning
~ Shantanu’s expe­ri­ence
~ Pra­teek runs his second

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  1. sp says:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 10:55 pm (#)

    WOW!!! Con­grat­u­la­tions and kudos for your efforts.

  2. Just call me 'A' says:

    October 24th, 2008 at 12:54 am (#)

    That is awe­some. way to go! Con­grat! now Indulge :)

    a fre­quent reader of your blog :)

  3. Sahu says:

    October 24th, 2008 at 1:07 am (#)

    con­grats ! the place looks beau­ti­ful .. but what I can see is that the shad­ows are going the wrong way — mustve been painful !!

  4. ravi says:

    October 25th, 2008 at 5:06 pm (#)

    wow I never thought a marathon in cities could take you to such greenery.

  5. Manoj says:

    October 27th, 2008 at 9:01 am (#)

    Good show at KTM…On on to the Ultra.. Cheerz

  6. kdphotoman says:

    October 29th, 2008 at 5:00 am (#)

    Now that’s a stead­fast spirit. Fin­ish­ing the course is tougher than we think. Loved the post, it baf­fles us what the human body is capa­ble of defy­ing. You seem to have added another medal of com­ple­tion to your adven­tures. Keep it going. :-)

  7. Shantanu says:

    October 31st, 2008 at 7:29 pm (#)

    Good Show Anita. Best of luck for the Ultra

  8. Anita says:

    October 31st, 2008 at 10:05 pm (#)

    @ sp: thanks!

    @ “a”: thanks! and also for the comment :-)

    @ sahu: yes, the way back was fac­ing the sun all the way — very painful!

    @ ravi: this wasn’t in the city. it was near sri­ran­ga­p­atna! but, not that far away either!

    @ manoj: thanks! and con­grats on your 42? 50?

    @ kdpho­toman: thanks, it really is! but you’re right, you know what the human body is capa­ble of when you push it to the lim­its and it’s quite incred­i­ble to see some of the stal­warts in action — really inspiring!

    @ shan­tanu: hey, thanks! and same to you for your 50! :-)

  9. Jayadeep Purushothaman says:

    November 3rd, 2008 at 4:42 pm (#)

    Glad to know that Rajen­dra Patel helped ease the run, many of us in the bus was fed up with his “entertainment” :)

  10. Usha says:

    November 11th, 2008 at 5:24 pm (#)

    You ran 21 kms and for 3 hours — hats off to you anita. Weight doesn’t mat­ter. Many of us thin ones aren’t so fit as you. Seri­ously, you are just a.m.a.z.i.n.g!!!!!

  11. Anita says:

    November 18th, 2008 at 7:57 am (#)

    @ jayadeep: hehe, any­thing to dis­tract me from the pain was good :-)

    @ usha: thank you!!

  12. Just a little something » The ultra experience says:

    November 18th, 2008 at 8:33 am (#)

    […] At around the 23 k mark, I bumped into Mr Patel again who claimed he was wait­ing for me to pass by (for ref­er­ence, I had fin­ished the KTM with him)! He, of course, insisted that we run together to the fin­ish. We set a com­fort­able pace and then fin­ished off the 25 kms in 3 hours and 29 minutes. […]

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