This guest post from my friend Nicci Smith, a foreign correspondent in Taiwan, is poignant and quite moving. This is the photo Nicci shared: Yes, indeed, it is a fabulously OTT in-your-face Barbie Doll pink flower. But there is a back story, too. Let Nicci tell you, in her own …
Funnily enough, I did (and also, paradoxically, did not) beware the Ides a year ago today, when I went to run in Delhi’s Lodhi Gardens. I had arranged to meet one of my good running mates, Ripu Daman, for a run – something we had done dozens of times before, …
In her previous post from Singapore, my friend Melissa shared her runnings photos from Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve. Continuing with the wildlife theme, a couple of days ago, running along the river in central Singapore, look what she saw – otters, a whole family of them 🙂 The way Melissa …
My young friend Melissa Cheong is back in Singapore for the Chinese New Year hols, and despite all the family get togethers, she’s still finding time to head out and run. Melissa sent me photos from her leisurely dawn run in Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, which I admit I’d never …
A couple of weeks ago I visited Bhopal for the first time, and was blown away by the “zoo”. I use the quotation marks advisedly, because Bhopal Zoo is not at all a zoo in the conventional sense of the word. It is actually a National Park within the city, …
The latest runner we are Q&A-ing with is one of my online running friends, Dr. Arvinder Kaur. We are part of the same training programme with Dr. Chauhan, but thanks to everything that 2020 (& now 2021) has thrown at us, 99% of us haven’t met. We are all training …
Sanjay, one of my cyber-mates in our online running WhatsApp group, shared with us a video from a station in Delhi where, if you do 30 squats, you get a free platform ticket. I’ve seen these schemes in other countries – Russia, I think? – but never here in India. …
As part of my online running training with Dr. Rajat Chauhan and his team, we have a WhatsApp group. (Yeah, yeah, hardly breaking news, I know 😛 ). As in all such groups, we chat about this, that and t’other. I’ve only met a couple of the participants in person, …
I don’t want to brag, BUT… I am SUPER chuffed by my Strava stats for 2020, a year that saw us locked-down for weeks on end, and a year in which I struggled to recover from my torn meniscus and, sadly, the beginnings of osteoarthritis in my knees. Basically, I …
It’s almost time to shut the computer and log off for 2020. Never been happier to see the back of a year – and I’m sure I’m not alone in this. But before I go, sights firmly set on 2021 & better things, here’s my December mileage : Not going …
