Change often starts with shock.
Around 20 years ago, Sunil Shetty, the ultra-marathoner, was 40. He was Nestle라이브 바카라 Western Region head for Sales. It meant travel, drinks, restaurant food, along with work he wasn’t quite enjoying.바카라 웹사이트
We all know when we are pushing boundaries of the negative kind, whatever facade we may put on. Shetty knew too. Two decades ago, at Pune라이브 바카라 Aurora Towers, he decided to confront the truth.바카라 웹사이트
He stepped on the weighing scale. The needle touched almost 100 kg. His waist size was a chunky 38 inches. 바카라 웹사이트
“It was a wake-up call,” the soft-spoken Shetty says.
He immediately went to a Bata store, bought sports shoes and started running.바카라 웹사이트
Now, many years of pounding gravel and strength training later, Shetty has defined abs, weighs 62kg and has a collegian라이브 바카라 waist of 28 inches. He is 60, but capable of running over 200km at a stretch, stopping only for food, bathroom or change breaks.바카라 웹사이트
In 2017, Shetty ran 266km at an ultra-marathon in Bengaluru, starting on Friday evening, running through two days and nights, before stopping on Sunday evening. Conventional 42km marathons and 21km half-marathons are a piece of cake for him.바카라 웹사이트
Driven Yet Content
It라이브 바카라 January for most of us. But for those like Shetty, it라이브 바카라 Run-uary, the month of the Tata Mumbai Marathon (TMM).바카라 웹사이트
This year라이브 바카라 race is on Sunday, January 15. Four days prior, on a Wednesday morning at Powai라이브 바카라 Heritage Gardens, the sights and sounds of Run-uary are everywhere. In the semi-darkness of dawn, runners lean against the fence, stretching their calves and hamstrings. A trainer counts aloud the number of seconds that they have to hold the stretch.바카라 웹사이트
Elsewhere is the audio of daily life - the scraping of the sweeper라이브 바카라 broom against pavement, birdcalls, ‘Mai to bhool gayi babul ka des’ playing on the phone of an elderly man.바카라 웹사이트
Shetty arrives at the park, head shaved, and wearing a black singlet, tiny running shorts and Brooks trainers. Asked if his having a Bollywood namesake ever causes confusion, he smiles and says, “When people meet me for the first time, they are at times dejected it라이브 바카라 not the actor Sunil Shetty.”바카라 웹사이트
Shetty has entered the TMM, and is in the ‘tapering off’ period. This is when runners ease off intense practice, and save themselves for the big day.바카라 웹사이트
A light 8km is all Shetty intends to do, if at all. Given how much he runs otherwise, he is more than prepared for Sunday.바카라 웹사이트
Shetty라이브 바카라 wife Sangeeta runs too. Her name is tattooed on his left arm. The other hand bears the name of his daughter Rhea. She has flown the nest to Pune, so it gives her parents all the freedom they need to train and run whenever and wherever they want. London, New York, the famous Comrades race in Durban, Shetty has done most of them, often accompanied by Sangeeta.
“I’m one of the fortunate ones whose wife is also into running,” he says.바카라 웹사이트
“But such cases are rare. For a family with, say, just one person into running, it would mean a lot of compromises, as most weekends are spent running.”
It also helps that Shetty dropped out of the rat race at age 49 and now works with a friend at NEB Sports, which organizes running events. 바카라 웹사이트
“I’m someone who is content. I know how much I need and as long as I have, that I’m happy,” Shetty says. “The higher you go up in corporate life, it becomes a 24/7 job. I wasn’t enjoying doing that.”
Now he has the ideal mix. He runs in his free time, and his work is an extension of his passion.바카라 웹사이트
A Calming Effect, and Some Murakami바카라 웹사이트
Running has been wonderful for Shetty라이브 바카라 health. Does he also find deeper meaning in it? Does he enjoy the solitude that Haruki Murakami speaks of in ‘What I Talk About When I Talk About Running’?바카라 웹사이트
The mention of the book draws a half-smile on Shetty라이브 바카라 face.바카라 웹사이트
“It [the book] opens up lot of things. I won’t use the word ‘spiritual’, but he gets a little into that angle,” he says. “Yes, I do enjoy being in the zone, where nothing in the world disturbs you. If someone reaches that stage, only then you enjoy it. Going for a run shouldn’t feel like going to office.”
Running has calmed him down. It has helped him become disciplined. In mid-January, he knows his February schedule. He sleeps at 10 and is up by 5 am. On weekends, he runs more, so he gets up earlier, at 3.30 am. He drinks once a week, on Sunday evenings. He does not party much.
“You get invited to functions or parties and you have to politely refuse,” Shetty says. And while he eats and drinks everything, he does so sensibly.바카라 웹사이트
There is one rule he strictly follows. He doesn’t train the morning after drinking. This is because alcohol dehydrates the body, and he feels mentally and physically you are not the sharpest after an evening of drinking, however moderate.바카라 웹사이트
On the subject of long-term joint complications and heart attacks among middle-aged runners, Shetty says the answer is in knowing your limitations and not taking running too seriously.바카라 웹사이트
“I sometimes get invited for talks on running, and I always remind runners that this is not our profession. Most of us run because it라이브 바카라 our passion, or because we want to be fit. And the body always gives us signals. We need to listen to those, rest when we need to, and get regular health checkups.”
From weighing 100 kilos to running 100 miles, Shetty has turned his life around. What would he say what running has meant for him in one word?바카라 웹사이트
“Peace,” he says.
