Nashik: Ravija Singal (18) became the youngest ‘Half Iron Lady’ of the city during an event held in New Delhi on Sunday.Sharing her experience with TOI over the phone from Delhi, Ravija said she completed the event in the stipulated time of nine hours, and was first to complete 1.9km swimming in 33 minutes, 90km cycling in 4.50hrs and rest of the time in running 21 km.“Running long distance is my weakness. Till date I have been a national-level swimmer and short distance sprinter. I did only few marathons because of my father’s wish,” said Ravija who is the daughter of police commissioner Ravinderkumar Singal, already a ‘Half Iron Man’.“My parents inculcated sports at a very young age in us. My brother is a lawn tennis player pursuing engineering and I am pursuing medicine. Since standard V, we are into it and have never been pressurised to leave sports for studies,” she said.“In fact, three months before my std XII exams, I participated in DSO national swimming and CBSE national swimming and won bronze in CBSE. I am thankful to my coaches Mustafa Topiwala and Taher Kachwala. It was a planned event and I trained only for three months,” she said, adding that her father supports her a lot.The sportsperson said she works out for six days and that the Delhi event was different and most tedious.Running biomechanics and scientific approaches were incorporated in her training by her coach Mustafa and by Dr. Milind Pimprikar because of which Ravija could complete the event without any injuries and recovered well.Ravija has now set her sights on Full Iron Lady event to be held in August.

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