RUNNING MENTOR
Tarun Walecha

We are happy to announce Tarun Walecha as our Mentor for this 9th edition of “Vedanta Pink City Half Marathon.” He is an architect by profession, an amateur photographer, a blogger, a traveler, and a sports enthusiast. He is a sincere, dedicated, and disciplined Runner who pursues his goals diligently.
He discovered running at the age of 40 as his fitness mantra. He has been running for over 9 years now and has participated in 38 Half Marathons, 5 Full Marathon, and 10 Trail/Ultra Runs. In the year 2016, he did a self-supported run of 7 half marathon distances over 7 consecutive days in support of underprivileged athletes. And followed that up in the year 2017 as well and reached out to nearly 2000 athletes.
Tarun has a tremendous mentoring skill and he has been a pacer for many races as well. He co-founded a running group by the name of RunXtreme in March 2015 and has been spearheading its meteoric journey. At present, they have a member base of over 4000 runners across Delhi NCR. In his words: As an individual, I bring tremendous value to the group ‘RunXtreme’ by creating a happy cohesive, and growing environment for all the participants. As a part of the group we not only encourage running but also create social awareness. We have organized Blood Donation Camps and supported underprivileged athletes and this year at the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon 2018, we raised funds as a Gold Fund Raiser for Naz Foundation. I believe that running is a tool for not only physical well-being but mental and spiritual as well.
With these noble thoughts and running spirit on the top Tarun is all set to join and mentor our runners on 15th December in “Vedanta Pink City Half Marathon”.
Jessie Benson

Jessie says, “Everyone SHOULD run- it’s the best!”
Sunita Gadara

An eminent international athlete marathoner of repute. She has completed 76 Full marathons till date and won 25 Golds, 12 Silvers & 13 Bronze medals across the globe in 26 countries and a total of 120,000 Kms covered in training. Record of more than 200 international Races include 123 Half Marathons in Marathon running carrier till 2010.
Having won international marathons in Asia in Bangkok, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and Japan, Egypt, Holland, Japan &among top ten in Paris, Melbourne – Australia, Macau, Poland, Italy, Istanbul, Belgrade, Las Vegas. She has done world famous Boston, Berlin &London Marathons.
In 1992 won the 3rd Asian Marathon Championship Gold & Bronze Medal in 1996For last one decade since 2006 Dr Sunita is involved with Marathon organization professionally as the ‘Elite Indian Marathon Runners Coordinator‘ with top 12 Marathons in India. Dr Sunita Godara has created a support system for Runners ‘Elite Marathon Club‘ Pan India. She is the Marathon Ambassador &Race Director for many City Marathons.Olympic Torch Bearer/Escort Runner at the Atlanta Olympics 1996.