Alert more Media! It’s Rachana’s B-day!

It’s Rachana’s B-day and because there are same mount of A’s and N’s and there’s a “sh” sound, we are celebrating Rosh Hashanah as well.

A few things you may or may not know about Rachana.

·         She’s a Veggie.  That means she’s <-this-> close to becoming a crunchy-granola-yoga-sandal-barefoot runner.  Quelle Horreur!

·         Despite sounding like Rosh Hashanah, she’s not Jewish. 

·         She doesn’t like Border Patrol.  I’m sure she doesn’t like the TV show Border Wars, and probably dislikes Jan Brewer. 

·         She doesn’t like caffeine.  I’m sure she doesn’t like Starbucks or Red Bull. 

·         She’s running two marathons back-to-back this fall, and is aiming to out PR each other.  3:00 for NYC, and 2:50 for Philly. 

·         She’s an Brightroom vigilante.  If you are wearing a wrong race bib, she will come and assassinate you. 

·         At one point, she too, had fallen to the Curse of Maharaja.  We hear it was a nasty shin splints.

Now that we talked about Rachana, here are a few things about Rosh Hashanah. 

·         It’s a Jewish Holiday, celebrating the beginning of a new Jewish year. 

·         You need to eat apple and honey during Rosh Hashanah.  It symbolizes “sweet new year”. 

·         Contrary to western interpretation of the Genesis’ “apple” being an evil fruit, Jewish scholars believe that it was actually a pomegranate that made the first man fall.  (Hey, what's wrong with a pomegranate.  I love POM-Wonderful.)

·         During Rosh Hashanah, they blow a horn.  This prompts the Rabbi to start running mid-service.  Not a good move for a Rabbi.

And now the big reveal:  CURSE OF MAHARAJA

It’s not as blingy like the Curse of Koh-i-Noor, unfortunately.  But here goes:

Since our Maharaja is such a strong, fast runner, anyone that runs or trains with him will sustain at least one injury.  Really!  While not a detrimental, career ending injury, it’s enough to take you out of training for a couple of weeks.  And…since you can not train, you won’t get any faster.  Thereby securely securing Maharaja’s spot as the fastest male runner of our team!  If you don't want to fall to the curse, simply accept defeat:  you will never be as fast as the Maharaja.