I thought of doing this run every day rather than every alternate day as suggested. This is natural. You find you are good at something, you want to do more of it.

And then when you have a worthy goal, you are ready to push and bear anything. You just want to reach your goal … faster.

Bad idea. At the fifth run, my knee started complaining. I did complete the run but with some difficulty. My knee became a cause of concern.

[...] As each running day went by, I realized that running is more than just a physical activity. For completing each run I have to use principles of living. Sometimes I learn from my runs some important lessons on living as well. Soon lessons on running better started influencing my life and lessons on living better started influencing my runs. To the point that I realized they both are the same – lessons on running or lessons on living … same thing. [...]