Kasa kai Mumbai….Paaaus Paaaus everywhere, but nothing that can stop our daredevil Striders. A quote says, ‘Running in the rain is like dancing with the elements’. You have to adjust your movements to the rhythm of the storm!’ And this time, it’s a PINK Striders storm brewing in Mumbai. A bold, gender-neutral, fluorescent reddish pink t-shirt marks 16 years of Striders’ love affair with fitness.This year theme is “love yourself be yourself “

Striders annual Tshirt run 2023 started at 6am from eastern express highway service road. More than 1000 runners across 23 centers participated in this run.
The theme for this year is something relevant and heartfelt – “Love yourself. Be Yourself.” The message on the back of your t-shirt is one of the many that will bring this theme alive and inspire not just your co-runners, but everyone around you.

What’s the story behind this idea?

We live in a hyper-competitive environment. Think about it – be it school, college, office or business, we’ve become an overly competitive society. But when it comes to health, fitness and running, do we need this sense of competition?

Isn’t the love we runners have for fitness/running above all of this?

We runners literally worship our fitness/running hour. We rise much before the sun rises, dedicate more than an hour to our favourite sport. It is this worship of running that helps us navigate the tough competition in life. Should we allow this competitiveness to creep into something we love so dearly?

Each one of us is blessed with something unique, something special. That’s because we aren’t made by a cookie cutter in a factory. It’s just a matter of discovering your greatness and celebrating that before all else. It’s just a matter of embracing the world’s most customised gifts that only we possess.

Here’s an initiative to cast aside all unwanted comparisons and rediscover the purity of running and fitness. With these 16 t-shirts, we let’s remind each other that instead of comparing, being hard on our own selves, it’s time we focussed on the greatness that lies within each of us.

The body and mind behind these annual t-shirts is our very own Shivaji Park fellow runner, Paddy (Santosh Padhi)

Striders running group is pioneer in running activities across india . Founded by praful ulchi and Deepak londhe. They introduced running activities in common man. Striders trained more than one lakh runners in last 16 years.