Episode 4 - How to find time & place to run

Hi, welcome once again to the running station and I'm your host Dr. Nira Satnalika. In today's episode, we shall talk on how to find time and place for a run, especially for the women. While this is mainly for the women, but applies to the men too. For the episode we have with us, a very well-known runner, Dr. Seema Yadav. Seema is a runner, yogini, doctor, fitness addict and above all, a mom. She started running in 2016 and since then has ran 5 full marathons, 20 half marathons and 10 kilometer run. She qualified for the Boston Marathon in less than 2 years of running. She has been a podium finisher at Delhi Marathon and Mumbai Marathon since 2016 and has bagged 17 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze medals till date. Her personal best for the half marathon is 1 hour 34 minutes 12 seconds. Let's hear from Seema. Thank you, Neeraj. How to manage time for running is quite challenging, but not that difficult, especially for women. When they have so many things to look after, their work, their children, their family and there are certain other social obligations, so I do really understand that it's quite challenging. But if you really want to, you can really take out a little time from your daily schedule for the running and in the beginning you can just take, you know, baby steps and you can start with running with 15 to 20 minutes a day and you know, 3 to 4 days a week. I don't think so, that is too much, you know, so taking out 15 to 20 minutes 3 times a week is quite enough, you know, when you're starting and then gradually you can increase as you become expert in managing out your time yourself. So what you can do is how you can, you know, take out or manage your time is like you can, you know, do simple, simple things, you know, you can cut down your time on social media or, you know, time of your watching TV and few of your parties so that you can utilize that time of yours in running and next thing is when. So it's not necessary that you have to run, you know, at a particular time of the day. So whenever you get time is like, you know, especially I think the working women's, you know, the best time for them is like, you know, they can start early their day, they can get early in the morning and just, you know, take out some time and have a run and then the women's who are homemaker they can do, you know, run after finishing their home course and sending their children to the school and they can just go out and, you know, to a nearest place to their home, some park or, you know, a road which is quite safe to run or something of that sort. So it's basically not that difficult, you know, you just have to decide basically and once you decide, I think you can and as I said, there is no specific time. You can run early morning or late morning, afternoon, early evenings or nights. Let me, I don't have a fixed time of running because even I do have my own challenges, you know, because of my, with my children, my family and certain other things. So I don't, at any time of the day, sometimes I'm running early morning, sometimes I run, you know, in the afternoon, evening or night. So it's up to you, you know, when you want to and how you want to. So and but the thing is that always try to run, you know, to a place which is quite safe to run, you know, at whatever time you're running. If you're running at night, so I would suggest, you know, you should run near your house or a place where, you know, other people are there if there is a stadium, that's good. I think at stadium, many people are there or, you know, or run, which is a road which is close to your home. So that's how you can do it, but and believe me, running will do wonders in your life. I myself have experienced it will make you much happier, healthier, stronger person physically and mentally. And running actually changes your life, you know, that's what I feel. It has changed my life like anything. It boosts your mood, makes you look good and keeps you fit. So and running is a healthy high, actually. So you need not to go to the parties for a high and see you start running. You just will get a high yourself, you know. So that's how I mean, I think taking out time is not that difficult. If you really want to, your life will become more structured, you know, and disciplined once you start doing some activity. So that's how it is. So I tell every woman, or I mean, it's not only women and men, those who are working also busy life, just take out few minutes or you know, a few hours of a day, three times a week from your life and just cut down, you know, the small things which are not that important and it will make wonders in your life. Thank you.