this year it was my first tryst with airtel great delhi run. first time ever i signed up for an event like this. i was hugely apprehensive about signing up for it. though i saw about it way back in sep beginning on the airtel website, n did think about signing up for it {was too idealistic - 2 months shud be sufficient to train n develop strength n all} but as life moved on n i realized that waking up in the morning n going for a jog was not my cup of tea. i thought its wise t0 decide other wise and stay off the event. neither were a couple of my other friends, whom i had asked
but then AK, NS n SM were game for it ans strongly recommended that we all shud be attending it as it wud be a good experience. they strongly suggested that the goodie bag was a good enough incentive to signup {implying that it wud help me break even with the registration fee ;) - bounded rationality of an economist mind i say} so we all sign up with a couple of their friends from office n all.
race day -
with just 2 morning walks to back me up, i decide to walk through the event {walk through as in the literal sense, the two morning walks which were supposed to be jogs made it clear that i cud not run beyond a couple of meters}. better incentive to attend the great delhi run - cud get opportunity to click some pics n pacify the amateur photographer within me.
on race day, we all met - a group of about 10 people, exchanged pleasantries with the new people n there we were all set for the great delhi run.
things went as per plan - i was comfortably walking, cliking pics of people {moslty 'backs n bums' as i wud like to put it- no offences meant - i was focusing of the messages people had on their shirts.} was good to see people come to gather for some cause. many of the runners belong to my category - here for photographic pleasure - click or be clicked whichever.
i soon got seperated form my gang as would stop every now n then to click a pic n then i wud loose track of where they r. so there i was alone n in bliss, clicking pics n all, thinking about captions for them et al. but was fun, really enjoyed it.
one sad sight was the litter we participants had created the holding area. that was a sorry sight, a real dampener :(
event pics
i did post the link for the pics on the various communities. did get some good reviews as well :)
