Senior Neurosurgeon Completes 200 Marathons

India

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New Delhi, February 25, 2024:

Prof (Dr.) Rajesh Acharya, who is a Senior Neurosurgeon at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital New Delhi, has fulfilled his dream; of running 200th Marathons on 25th February 2024. After successfully running 199 half marathons (21 kms), he celebrated the 200th Marathon in style by running his FIRST FULL MARATHON (42 kms) @ Apollo Tyrese New Delhi Marathon on Sunday 25th February. His journey of Half Marathons started in December 2013 when he was above 50 years of age.

Dr. Acharya was never a runner during the school or college days. It took him 8 years to complete first 100 half marathons on 23rd January 2022. Then he became more passionate fitness freak and an avid runner. He started running a half marathon on almost every weekend (in all weathers) and took only 2 years to complete the second century of half marathons. During COVID times, since events were not organized, he learned to run solo around Nehru Park – Shanti Path (Delhi) monitored on Garmin watch. Some runs were during the organised events or at Seattle (USA), Ajmer, Udaipur and Goa during the family vacations.

In the last 3 months he practiced to run few 25kms, 30 kms and 35 Kms distances. According to Dr. Acharya, age is just a number. If one decides to come out of his / her comfort zone, with strength training and consistency, one can run successfully even above 50 or 60 years of age. One has to go slow and steady with proper warm up, hydration, nutrition and stretching after each run. “There is no such thing as bad weather, just soft people “.

His success mantra is: To climb सफलता की सीढी सीढी “C D”: C: is CONSISTENCY, D: is DISCIPLINE “If you have a will, it is very easy, if you have excuses, you never start”. When asked what the aim is, Dr. Acharya quoted “The idea is to stay and die young, as late as possible”

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