'Despite all of the success I gained from the running, the biggest impact the sport has had on my life was mentally.'
I came to Washington, D.C., in 2014 to work at the Embassy of India. At the time, I wasn’t a runner. I was a big a guy with a big body at around 200 pounds; running wasn’t remotely on my mind.. Put simply, I needed to lose weight, but how?. When I finally looked into it, the first thing that came up was running. The sport was not for the average man in India. Only the faster guys did it, and I definitely did not consider myself a faster guy.
Here though, many people ran. I saw them everywhere, so I joined them. Well, I did it by myself. I’d go out for runs in the evening, starting with a half-mile because that’s as far as I could make it. Progress was as slow as I was, taking me three months to run three miles. But in that time, my weight started to come off. By the end of 2015, I was down 70 pounds to around 130.Running wasn’t the only change that contributed to this accomplishment.
Now, I get sugar the natural way, from sources like bananas, oranges, and plums. I learned that the Whole Foods near my house is a wonderful place.. I discovered what that was when an online ad popped up for a local race. It was a. Never having raced before, I had no idea what to do. I just showed up and ran as fast as I could. When I finished, I went home and signed up for another race the next weekend.
Racing was my life for the next two years. I hired a coach and just went all out. In 2017, I ran 123 races. The next year, I ran 80 races. By that time, I was starting to burn out on the road races. I had done
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