The Shailesh-tival

Running a marathon has always been on my bucket list, but I always figured it would be one of those things I’d do when I was older. The amount of training involved means that you pretty much have to focus on running and nothing else, and I didn’t want to give up lifting weights, Tae Kwon Do and the many other things I’ve picked up over the years.

For some reason I wasn’t thinking about this on the morning of January 1, 2011 and at 9 am that morning, I took advantage of the early-bird discount and signed up for the Detroit Marathon. Read the rest of this entry →

I never really thought it was realistic for an average person to run 26.2 miles until my friend Ninad’s dad ran one a few years ago. Then my friend Tim ran the Chicago marathon twice and my friend Tom ran it once. Since that time I’ve always had it in the back of my mind to run one. Read the rest of this entry →