The speed it is the the wind hitting your face it is that feeling of winning it’s my happy place did you enjoy this activity during the summer camps back in the day what if you had taken it seriously as an aspiring career well this speed skater from Gat did my name
Is anoli sha am 27 years old and I’m a profession at the age of 27 anoli has a whooping 166 Golds 123 Silvers and 88 brunes medals across levels to her name and that to keeping a perfect balance with her academics so uh my parents wanted me to do some ACT curricular
Activity other than my academics in my free time and uh initially I tried my hand at music but uh that did not work out I think I’m too impatient with that and um a friend of mine used to go to skating classes in the evening and she
Asked me to you know she asked me if I wanted to join her I said yeah sure and I went there and then my dad asked me if I wanted to start skating I said okay let me try it and I started skating in a summer vacation batch and after my batch
Would get over all the advanced level skaters used to skate all the state and National level skaters would practice on that track so I would get out of the track remove my skate sit on the side and just watch them like just sit there in awe and watch them skate at such high
Speeds and I would look at my dad and I would tell him that you know I want to be a part of that group one day I want to I want to skate that part and um yeah I think that is where I fell in love
With skting and this is how it starts for me I won two gold medals at the end of a small tournament that happens after the summer vacation batch and my coach spotted me and he said he asked my dad that you know I think this girl can do
Better you want to move to professional skates and my dad came and asked me and it was a big fatest from my side the Gujarat Champion has represented India at the World Championships Asian championships Beach Asian Games and fanders Grand Pre Open Championship amongst others however her most
Cherished moment is still the one she saw in her father’s eyes it was my first national championship it was my very first race um it was a time trial was 300 M time trial where I was supposed to skate alone I my race I came out and
After 10 or minutes when they announced the results I I heard that I had won like at 11 I was a national champion and I like it did hit me at that time I didn’t realize what happened and everybody around me started congratulating me they were all happy
And I looked at my father and he was a bit te eyed my father has been very passionate about sports and I can say that he’s probably more passion than I am a multiple time national champion in addition to her calling as a speed skater she is a full-time MBA student
Supported byn so I knew that I had to manage my time smartly I would generally wake up at 4: 4:30 in the morning do a training session come back have my breakfast or my mom would have my breakfast ready uh have wake up at 3
3:30 my dad would wake up early he would drive 20 kilm pick me up take me to the track which is another 20 kilometers away I would do an hour hour and a half the session rush back to college finish my lectur you know finish my assignments group work whatever whatever is there
Get ready for another session so it has been really hectic for sure but U but I think I love it like if there are days where I don’t have all this and you know I have an empty day where I just have to wake up and train and do nothing else I
Feel like something’s missing at um at 27 I don’t know when I’m going to quit my sport but whenever I do um I’m always going to have these thoughts that okay after I’m done with my sport what am I going to do with my life how am I going
To make money how am I going to be independent I’m so grateful that I’ve been connected to engine because um these guys are these guys are almost like you go train we’ll take care of everything else in love with the sport that offers very less exposure in a
Country like us struggles have been a constant in her 16 year long career but at the end of the day it’s the skates that make her a happy woman other than that I have been told by a lot of people don’t do it there are so many
Injuries why do you want to take such thisis it’s not like this Cod is going to give you anything in you’re not going to get money out of it etc etc but uh I I love this too much to listen to those people
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