JRG completes unique event of ‘100 Days of Running Challenge’ in style

Excelsior Sports Correspondent

JAMMU, Aug 6: Team Jammu Runners Group (JRG) celebrated the completion of a unique event of ‘100 Days of Running Challenge’ in style with a Sunday long-run, here yesterday.
It was the 4th Edition of the event, which had begun on April 28, 2018 with a purpose of keeping the participants active throughout the summer by running a minimum of 2 kilometers every day and concluded on August 5, 2018.
All the members of Jammu Runners Group successfully completed the Challenge despite the fact that it was a first attempt for most of the runners and some of them had started running only a few weeks back.
The top mileage runners from JRG, ran for Chandigarh Distance Runners also.
The Organising team of this mega event included Tanvir Kazmi, Ultra runner, 13-time ADHM finisher, Engineer at Cadence Design Systems, Noida; Mayank Gupta, 3-time ADHM finisher, Director at Gateway Software Solutions, Delhi; Chandan Khanna, Director at Gateway Software Solutions, Delhi and Athar Abbas, Engineer at Capgemini, Hyderabad.
Completing a distance of 1359.78 kms in 154:59: 46 seconds in 100 days, Bhupesh Gupta ranked first. The others rankers included Mushtaq Wani (1243.83 kms in 195:18:25); Sham Suri (1054.3 kms in 124:04:50); Sanjay Saini (804.7 kms in 106:05:25); Rajinder Gupta (735.79 kms in 93:46: 16); Sandeep Singh (567.17 kms in 69: 52:95); Dilawar Khan (544.91 KMS IN 16:20: 14); Akash Gupta (480.41 kms in 95:37:47); Harinder Pal Singh (702.37 kms in 27:33:02); Rakesh Kumar (271.67 kms in 27:02:41); Rawoof Mir (249.07 mks in 121:37: 19); Bhushan Kumar (617.23 kms 53:20: 40); Rajeshwar Singh (436.18 kms in 55: 42:45); Rajesh Padha (867.25 kms in 98:00:37); Mukesh  Kumar (500.66 kms in 54:00:05); Sindhu Sharma (591.54 in 64:46:25); Zoha Barkat (335.23 kms in 39:37:46); Vinod Padha (832.95 kms in 75:37:46); Sangram (186.59 kms in 27: 59: 54); Kanupriya Garg (195.36 kms in 28: 20: 28); Nakul Saraf (132.65 kms in 14: 43: 58); Mineesh Gulati (359.47 kms in 44:10: 22); Vikram Garg (302.83 in 137:58: 11); Deepak Kohli (178.16 kms in 17:37:03); Dr Pankaj Kumar (71.69 kms in 18:16: 23); Ajay Gandotra (93.42 kms in 22:05:19); Sanchit Sharma (61.45 kms in 07:55:09); Taranjeet Singh (48.47 kms in 06:02:31); Mehmood Ahmed (72.06 kms in 09: 44: 32).
Those who ran for Chandigarh Distance Runners included Talvinder Isher (2005 kms in 247:31: 00); DySP Surinder Choudhary (1901 kms in 221:45:15): CDR SF (1109 kms in 145:31:10); Sumeet Singh (1783 in 208:26: 09) and Sunil Dogra.
The runners were of the opinion that this Challenge has improved their overall performance in terms of running.