On 19th January 2009, Sunday morning Mumbai slipped into their running shoes to run for miles and miles in the Standard Chartered Mumbai marathon.

It was also the peace walk against the terror attack on Mumbai on 26/11 many wore the peace and harmony t-shirts and memorized the victims of the blast.

It was  not the first time that Mumbai has witnessed a marathon but this year it was for a cause which shows that Mumbaikers have the all the spirit still alive. The starting point was CST which was also one of the sites gunned down by the terrorist and ended at the same venue after the athletes touched the another site of the 26/11 attacks – the Trident hotel on their way. The participants raced their way past Haji Ali junction, Worli Seaface, Bandra Reclamation as thousands of people cheered them up.

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Anil Ambani, Vidya Balan, John Abraham, Tina Ambani, Soha Ali Khan etc joined the race and added the enthusiasm to the marathon. While others like Arjun Rampal became the part of dream run with the handicapped participants and senior citizens. Among the famous ones Vikram Saluja came all prepared for the marathon as he told that he used to jog 6 kilometres twice or thrice a week before the marathon. The actor was well prepared as his next film 42kms is also based on Mumbai marathon and there he is one of the marathon runners.

This year  it was really big as  more than 35,000  runners had registered more than the past years. The event also had tighter security this year with metal detectors and scanners,more than 1500 policemen and around 750 private security personnel.

-Shruti Didwaniya / Sampurn Media