I signed up for a six-month program with All In-Running as a run-up to the 2019 New Delhi Marathon and it has been a most beautiful journey since. While I have been a consistent runner for the past few years, having participated in a few half marathons, I never signed up for a program. Like many of us, I believed that running is just running, plain and simple, so why all the fuss of signing up for a program. But, I must say that the discovery by being in the All In-Running program has been amazing. What I like about it is the focus on injury-free running.
The coaches push you but never to an extent that you succumb to injuries, which could keep you off the road for long. The fact that the first question during each of the last 20 odd weekly review calls has been a version of ‘How is your body doing?’, speaks volumes about how careful the coaches want us to be while training. The focus on weekly mileage, with intermittent interval and tempo runs, together with physio and strength workouts, the advice to keep it slow and easy on long runs which seems a bit counter-intuitive and the focus on hydration which I had always ignored, has helped me improve tremendously. I understand my body much better and have started enjoying my runs even more than before. Not to forget that the community at All In-Running is just fantastic! I am delighted to know all the passionate runners who are always supporting and motivating one to do a bit more than what one believes one can! There is no doubt in my mind that I am a much better version of myself as a runner, than what I was when I started with All In Running and as much credit for this goes to him, as to me!