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Thursday, February 20, 2003

Posted 2:00 PM by Anurag
Yesterday, I participated in the National Geographic's 'Everest se takkar' competition. Five national winners would be taken to the Everest by Indian Army! This was regional (South) round. There was a huge queue of 500 hopefuls outside the St Joseph Boy's High School playground at MG Road at 0800 hrs. When I reached there with Manju, Hari was already in the line with his attache! He had just flown in from Mumbai after recieving the young thought leader award and an interview. Due to his attache, we got attention from the National Geographic camera crew who were sad to learn that we were actually from Bangalore only!

Once inside, it was arranged quite meticulously. The first round was about running for 2 km (10 rounds of 200 m each). People were divided in batches of 50 and they wud kinda shortlist first 20 from each batch. When our batch's turn came, I was kinda hopeful about making it. I was strategizing about changing my speeds in various laps and stuff. U know slow first, fast later etc. Once the run started, the realization came fast that strategies wont help me get into top 20, only stamina would. By 5th round, I had crossed my campus jogging limit in (that is jogging which i used to do some 4 months back). After 7th lap, philosophical issues about life and its purpose had taken over my mind and these thoughts were trying to kill my desire to qualify at the expense of my body. Completing 9th lap, I decided that I would rather live and have another try at going to Everest than die right there of exhaustion and catching only a fleeting glimpse of Everest while flying past it on the way to my heavenly (?) abode. So I graciouly stepped outta course and went straight flat to the ground.

Well, that decision kinda ended my fray in the competition. Heck, I'll take the chopper only.
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