I am currently in Shanghai, visiting my son and daughter-in-law, and am making the most of the crisp autumn weather + fabulous AQI (I live in Delhi, for those of you who don’t know me, home to horridly polluted air in the winters). To run in clean air is a …
…GO! So there was I this morning, still a bit ache-y from my half marathon yesterday. Looking desparingly at dozens of unflattering photos I’d optimistically advance-purchased. Scrolling through Instagram, admiring everyone else’s elegant running photos – mine make me look like an exhausted tomato. Then I chanced upon this: WHAT? …
This morning I – along with thousands and thousands and thousands of people – ran the Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon. (I read online that we were 42,000. Not for the half, I’m sure, but for all the distances) The wee ‘lil video (below) is of me walking to the holding …
I am fully aware that no one except me gives a hoot about my running. (I’m a realist.) I have nothing to complain about, absolutely nothing. I have a great personal trainer, a great physio, a lovely regular running partner, and the wider Delhi running community is brilliantly supportive – …
A quick piece of background info for people who don’t know me. I’m British, but have lived out of England for decades. In some respects (well, a few), I still feel British. In certain moments. Under certain circumstances. (Usually sport or royal family related). But…there are mornings like today, when …
You know, there is nothing that pleases a blogger like me more than someone asking if they can share their story here. I mean, yes! Obviously! Thank you! And even better when the guest blogger is a young man I had written about in 2015 (and, yes, by the way, …
Living in Delhi, I know a thing or two about exercising in the heat. (And the cold. And the pollution. But those are for another day and another blog post!) Starting about now, late March, my days will gradually kick off earlier and earlier. I am no stranger to 4.30 …
I ran the half marathon in this event on Sunday, so can only really speak to that race, although I noted certain things that affect everyone, regardless of category, and some things that are specific to the longer distances. So here goes. In the interests of full disclosure, I enjoyed …
Yesterday, despite all my misgivings, I ran a half marathon here in Delhi. And all because of FOMO. Let me explain. I had decided that I wouldn’t run the HM, even after switching categories from the marathon to half, because (a) I was seriously undertrained and (b) there was an …
Before I start…I know, I know, I know. No one is remotely interested in my marathon journey except me. Literally no-one. My darling children are always very supportive. Ditto my running friends in Delhi. Ditto my running guru, Dr. Chauhan, on whose shoulders I regularly cry. But that is a …
