It was a regular day, I was
working in office, doing my job, the best way I can. One of my colleagues approached
me and asked “will you join Terry Fox Run-a marathon”. I said “when”. He said it’s
going to be tomorrow and provided tit bits of marathon. So before we go further
into marathon, let me tell you about the marathon. The marathon was ideated
after a young 18yr old Canadian athlete having bone cancer ran for 5300kms and
raised 10 million dollars for cancer research. Now people like us, corporate all
come together and run for the same cause and donation money is given to cancer research
foundation. I and Dua (a colleague) started from our place and reached IIT
Madras (venue) of marathon. There we took some pictures with background as IIT’s
banner.
In the meantime, other colleagues also joined us and we board shuttle
from main gate to start point of Marathon. It was for about 7kms and was
completely inside IIT campus only. The entire area of IIT is about 250 hectares
as if; it’s not a college but a village. The best thing, campus even consists of animals living inside, we can say nature and humas existing together. While we were running in marathon, all
of us had a different reason for being there, one wanted a change from dead end
office life, other wanted glamour, while others wanted time pass. But one thing
was sure, none of us were there for supporting cancer, still we supported the
supreme cause in another way, by being a part of the crowd. Singh (another
colleague) said that for sustenance, for running we all need some inspiration.
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