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It was only while studying engineering that Pranaya Mohanty first played a sport, mostly for fun. The next time he decided to take it up was to mostly keep a check on his growing waistline, after spending long sedentary hours while employed as a techie.
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As his wife had already taken to running, Nargolwala too decided to sign up for his first run and was soon hooked onto the sport. The couple soon started taking ‘run-cations’, where they would travel the world and participate in some of the most testing marathons as part of the holiday. When Nargolwala first heard of a triathlon, he knew he had to give it a go and started adding extra hours to the training routine while mixing up the three disciplines.
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Today, he has knocked off an Ironman and an Ultraman, has run a marathon in all seven continents and is a world marathon major finisher (New York, Boston, Chicago, London, Berlin and Tokyo). He is a Triple Super Randonneur of the Audax Club Parisien, having cycled the distances of 200km, 300km, 400km and 600km on three occasions. He has also done the Kili double – summiting Africa’s highest mountain, Mt. Kilimanjaro, and running the Kilimanjaro Marathon. Nargolwala lives by two mantras, discipline and dedication, and while he continues to rise early to avoid traffic even today, going to the gym has a whole new meaning for him these days.
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