Front Runners: Corporate executives' running journey explored

"My journey started with me moving from Bengaluru to Mumbai. Some of my friends were running for 2005 Standard Chartered Marathon. I used to brisk walk before that and in Bengaluru, I used to play a lot of golf but I used to walk a lot. So a lot of people started saying, you walk about an hour or so, why don’t your jog with us. That is how it started. I started jogging with them. 2007 Bombay was my first half marathon," Vats said.

"One fine day, I thought, let me run from my home to my office tomorrow morning. 12 kilometres is not a small distance for a new runner. So I couldn’t sleep the whole night, I slept at 2: 00 am in the morning. At 6:00 am, I asked my wife, I want to go for a run to my office. She thought I have been joking. I said that I want to run. That was the first time I took up running. I can still feel that moment in my heart when I finished those 12 kilometres and post that no looking back, I have been running since then," Khurana mentioned.