Indore (Madhya Pradesh): The man who brought marathon to Indore never imagined himself running even a few meters. Dr Arun Agarwal, a fitness enthusiast in theory but never in practice, admits that outdoor sports were never his calling.

“I never played any outdoor game since childhood. I was never a runner, never even interested in running,” he recalls with a smile. Life changed, however, with a single story he read one morning of Toronto Marathon back in 2011.

That story was about Fauja Singh, a 100-year-old man who had completed a marathon in 8 hours and 16 minutes. “He had started running at 85. When I read that, I was 55 and I kept thinking—if he can run at 100, what’s stopping me?” says Dr Agarwal. The thought stayed with him and within two days, he made up his mind to participate i

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