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My First Run

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Our group of runners readying before the run It was in my mind to run a Marathon someday. I am not a runner except those athletic run of 100 m or 200 m in schooldays. As time flew, years mounting to age, my lung capacity was getting bad so was that I started weighing heavier. These were all signs to let me back out of the wish to run. Well, when the opportunity comes knocking, it's always the will to go for it or not. I decided to go for it... It was too short a period for practice or to get trained for a 10 Km run. I just had two weeks. A run of 10 Km needs both endurance and speed. Like always to find a solution, I started to Google... :). Every article mentioned at least ten weeks of practice. My group of friends had been running for over a year. I did a slow trial run with them. But to my disappointment, I really couldn't catch up with their speed or endurance. Now it was, should I join the Race for Cause or leave it. My spouse was apprehensive knowing the bad lung c