navi mumbai the city its wide roads and spacious open places is a boon running enthusiasts on weekends one can spot them along the picturesque palm beach road hills and kharghar some in groups others alone from professional marathon runners to those breaking into the sport they are a mixed lot srivatsan m k one of the founders of navi runners is an avid runner a resident of nerul runs five a week if you are training for a marathon one would need run at least 10 a day and on run 20 30 km he said over the years he has completed six full 42 km and tells everyone that running should be taken up as a sport hobby form of exercise or as career sweta jayaram a core team member of the group heading to goa with friends the 10 km goa we have large of active members every week we practice each individually at his or time said their facebook page regularly with runs and followers are kept informed of the activities while she women to run she says most of her friends been encouraged by her initially we start with a km run and later move on to longer are there is no stopping them she added koparkhairane resident jitendra bhagwat runs a good days a week he has been a participant in the 21 km and 42 marathons but restricts himself to mumbai only i try to encourage people to run as much as possible it is an excellent exercise he he added the fact that navi mumbai is scenic makes one to run the roads are spacious and green and this can be very enticing for a runner it does make big difference when you on a good