My First Marathon - how I went from 2k to 42K in 5 Months
2020 has been a weird year. It has brought pain and misery for millions of people across the globe due to the dreaded Corona virus, but it has been especially sad for me given my peculiar situation. To be fair, it did start on a more upbeat note with a trip to Mexico for 2 weeks close on the heels of my return from India to Toronto in February. (More on those 2 weeks in a separate post) Anyways, almost within a week of my return from Cancun to Toronto in March, all of North America witnessed a surge in Coronavirus numbers and US and Canada were put on a lockdown - we were told to work from home for the foreseeable future (something we had anyways been doing since last year). I already had a weight management plan in mind before this, but the virtual lockdown of the city expedited things and forced me to think of creative ways to be able to spend more time in the outdoors - as sitting inside closed doors was becoming increasingly frustrating. With the Toronto winter still in full swing ...