3rd Panchkula Running And Living Marathon - 6th Jan 2013

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It was cold at 4 degrees centigrade when the Marathon run was flagged off at 7am sharp. 20 brave souls braved the cold, the mist and the cross country route along the trail to start their 42.2km journey.

The run was flagged off by the coach of Indresh Dhiraj who ultimately came 2nd overall and 1st in the womens category.

&0 year old Tripat Singh finished in an incredible time of 4:37, as did Anuj Kumar who came 1st at 3:03 in the full marathon. Tarik Khan from Ottowa came in 3rd.

Major DP Singh - the famous blade runner and amputee who is a Kargil war hero came and gave an inspirational and short talk to the runners before taking off to run the 21.1km tough trail run himself. He finished after 7 falls he said - with a characteristic smile. Amazing!

Sanyukta Jadhav and Sunita Malik came 1st and 2nd in the womens category.

In the 5km run Arshdeep, Pankaj and Rewati Singh did phenomenally well to come in the 1st 3 positions and in the 10km event, Mohit and Naveen ran at a blistering pace to finish in 44 minutes while Karim Khan also from Ottawa came in 3rd.

Rahul Verghese, the founder of Running And Living Infotainment, the organiser of this run, was delighted with the enthusiasm and participation levels at the 3rd edition of the run this year. Family members were giving out certificates and handing out medals to the finishers at the finish line, some of the amputee runners with Major DP Singh flagged off the half marathon run and all in all, everyone had an energising morning in a scenic and fun running event.

For more information and photographs contact Rahul Verghese at 9810730132

Half Marathon:

Rank Chest # Name Time

1st 332 Hari Chouhan 1:22

2nd  388 Vinod Joshi 1:22

3rd 365 Ram Swaroop 1:23

3rd 378 Subhash Kumar 1:23

Women:

1st 372 Sanyukta Jadhav 2:01

2nd  494 Sunita Malik 2:10

Full Marathon:

Rank Chest # Name Time

1st 22 Anuj Kumar 3:03

2nd 06 Indresh Dhiraj 3:54

3rd 18 Tarik Khan 3:59

Women :

1st  22 Indresh Dhiraj 3:54

Above 60 years :

1st 19 Tripat Singh 4:37

10km:

1st 1025 Mohit Kumar Satpal 0;44

2nd 1026 Naveen Kumar 0:44

3rd 1021 Karim Khan 0:58

5km:

1st 2006 Arshdeep Singh 0:24

2nd 2024 Pankaj Ahlawat 0:24:30

3rd 2028 Rewati Singh Jatav 0:26