Front Runners is a special series in which a corporate executives' running journey is explored.

Rashesh Shah, chairman and chief executive officer of Edelweiss Group; Sudhanshu Vats, group chief executive officer and managing director of Viacom18 and Rajat Khurana, managing director of ASICS India shared their running journey and the motivation behind it.

"You try to be calm and compose, you cannot always be calm and compose. So even when you run, there are always thoughts going on, some anxiety about outcomes and is are always there. However, over the years, we have learnt that you cannot control the outcomes. You can only control your efforts, the inputs. So we try and enjoy," says Shah of Edelweiss.

"My journey started with me moving from Bengaluru to Mumbai. Some of my friends were running for 2005 Standard Chartered Marathon. I used to brisk walk before that and in Bengaluru, I used to play a lot of golf but I used to walk a lot. So a lot of people started saying, you walk about an hour or so, why don’t your jog with us. That is how it started. I started jogging with them. 2007 Bombay was my first half marathon," Vats said.

"One fine day, I thought, let me run from my home to my office tomorrow morning. 12 kilometres is not a small distance for a new runner. So I couldn’t sleep the whole night, I slept at 2: 00 am in the morning. At 6:00 am, I asked my wife, I want to go for a run to my office. She thought I have been joking. I said that I want to run. That was the first time I took up running. I can still feel that moment in my heart when I finished those 12 kilometres and post that no looking back, I have been running since then," Khurana mentioned.