Running is a freedom to cherish and protect.!

Running is a freedom to cherish and protect.!

Being a Republic state is to have a set of essential agreements made by ourselves which define how we will use the state of freedom that is hard earned. The respect that we show to the essential agreements that we take oath to honor shows how much we value our freedom. In the context of the national freedom, it's our constitution. And in the context of personal freedom, it's the self discipline.

To be able to run is a great state of freedom, all will agree with me. But the way we train, follow the cardinal rules of training, methods and religiously honor the essential agreements that improves us as runners shows actually how much we respect that state of freedom, called running.

So as we prepare for yet another year of oath to abide by the rules and responsibilities that we have agreed to carry out in the lines of our constitution, let it be defending the weak, or keeping the neighbourhood clean, let us also apply some essential agreements that are so necessary to defend our freedom of being runners.

The duties tell us to follow the disciplines of running, training, helping the others and try and be the true sons of mother earth, by being sportsmen and women and grow as runners by disciplined training. As in running, we can break all thresholds by actually following the principles of training.

It was a first republic day run for me in the nation called Surti Runners, and was an inspiration. Frankly speaking last year's photograph was creating an envious feeling, like as if I was behind the bars of lethargy and inaction seeing smiling happy faces of people of a free nation, and had it not been Pranav bhai who would have nudged me into running, I would still be envious grumpy fellow...but the things are different. Though i am not in the group photo, i know i am somewhere there !

Miles to go but happy to join the flock of seagulls who are just floating free of friction of the road and are feeling a lesser bit of gravity than the other earthlings.

Jai hind.!