Comrades Marathon 2016 Sensational Start

2016 Comrades Marathon was very memorable. My glute injury just got aggravated 2 weeks before the Comrades and all my attempts to fix it were in vain. I almost decided not to travel. It was the last day before I could cancel my flight tickets to get a refund. I was losing hope. Strange things do happen which can instantly change our life direction from down to up.
I was seriously contemplating canceling my trip or to go and brave the Comrades. My daughter, Anjali, came home from her friend's place and wanted to watch something on TH-cam. I was reading a book and after a little while, I started hearing music very familiar to me. First I thought it was just a hallucination but later I found it wasn’t. I heard the Chariots of Fire theme music and Anjali was listening to it. It is the same music that every single Comrades marathon runner would listen to, with so much emotion, at the start line just before the final two rooster crows. I’ve seen some runners cry when they hear the music and I’ve personally experienced that too in the year 2015.
I instantly had goosebumps and ran up to my daughter, lifter her up and gave her a big hug, and planted few kisses for putting me on a virtual but an emotional flight trip to the Comrades start line. I wanted to be there again. I will never regret my decision to go to South Africa despite having many elements of doubt about my fitness levels.
I was able to capture this beautiful and emotional moment which will stay in my memory forever. I finished the race successfully.
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Greatest race ever!!!!