more-inIn 2004, at the first Mumbai Marathon, 25 cardiac patients participated in the 7-km Dream Run. Then go up to 20 and 30 and 40 minutes.” When people start exercising and get better at it, he says, the natural progression is to run the marathon. “I simply thought, why not prepare them to take part in the dream run?” The patients who ran were carefully chosen during their rehab. Contractor says, “I don’t recommend that everyone should run a marathon. Also, I have met so many people, amputees, cancer patients, patients with neurological disorders and have heard their stories.

Source: The Hindu January 17, 2018 19:01 UTC