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Oct 29, 2023, I ran my first half marathon ever.
And Holy Grail, I did that all the way TWELVE THOUSDAND kilometers from my homeland India.
After some ten or eleven 10 km runs on the Gurugram (a city in the Haryana state of India, for the ones who did not know) roads, and myriad 5km ones; I was all set to run the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon in India, before I had a sudden trip planned to New Zealand to visit my family.
This was me, with all the medals from the 5 km / 10 km runs. And, all that then I wanted was a Half Marathon medal.
In September, 2023 I travelled to Auckland, New Zealand. I visited on a tourist work visa after quitting my job in Gurugram, at a US based digital transformation company; and also to take a brief city experience before starting my MS at the Uni of Auckland, in ‘24.
As soon as I landed in Auckland, I just wanted to get on with my itinerary which definitely included…
