Karachi's fastest. Are you one of them?

I am still not sure about the real reason why I started running. What makes a twelve year old get up at 5 am in the morning and run for an hour every day for the next twenty years of his life. Perhaps the credit goes to Faisal Shafiq, even Sama my younger sister. These two would routinely do a clean sweep of medals at the annual school athletics competition, year after year.  Leaving the rest of us breathing the dust left behind by their strides at Parsi gymkhana.

Teenage envy or sibling rivalry. I am not sure, take your pick.

I ran competitively for only two years for my college but those two years define who I am today. Training for the 800m and the mile put me up against demons that I had never met before as a teenager. 

Your first realization of not being good enough is heart breaking. Even more difficult is your first loss in the season. But the biggest challenge is convincing your legs to go on for another ten meters or another ten minutes at the pace you have been carrying for the last hour.

Get your kids into athletics. Start them young. It will change their lives. 

Begin with showing up as a competitor or supporter on 6th November 2017 at the All Karachi Athletics championship. NCC. 8:30 am sharp.

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