"I will abide by the decision of AFI, whatever it may be," said the 31-year-old Kerala-born runner who has won bronze medals in 5,000m and 1,500m events in two different Asian Games after breaking Vally Satyabhama's 1995-record, while finishing as the best Indian woman runner in the Mumbai Marathon.
Jaisha clocked 2:37:29 in her maiden marathon run as she took the overall eighth spot in the event won by defending champion Dinkesh Mekash of Ethiopia to also dip under the 2:44 mark set by AFI as the pre-qualification mark for the IAAF World Championships in August.
In the run-up to the Mumbai Marathon, AFI president Adille Sumariwalla had announced that the federation has engaged financial consultants EY (earlier named Ernst and Young) to put in place a structured marathon running calendar.
"This is being done for the benefit of our athletes, to bring in some system in long distance running and prevent their burn-out. It will help our long distance runners. Each athlete should run only X number of events," the former national 100m champion explained.
"We have socio-economic problems that compel some of them to run a lot many races than desired. I am no expert to say how many marathon races an athlete can run, but some of them run a race every month," Sumariwalla said, adding that AFI would come out with a comprehensive calendar for marathon events.