At 5 o’clock this morning, in the pre-dawn darkness (& with temperatures of 33C before sunup), I joined an enthusiastic group of runners and volunteers for a half marathon, as well as a 14k and a 7k run through Sanjay Van, a huge forest in south Delhi. This was a …
Having fessed up this morning to a complete stranger that I am a senior citizen, and then, (in order to share the story), to all of you, too, I was chuffed to read the following story online this afternoon – about older athletes having a younger fitness age. Yaay! Go …
Like Delhi, where I live. Currently we have the dubious honour of being the world’s most polluted city. (In your face, China!) Yesterday, in my blog post about our very own marathon man completing his 50th marathon, I included a photo of Piyush-ji and some of his fellow runners, and …
That is the question. And, dear readers, it’s one which I am asking you all to help me answer. As a still-finding-my-way-newbie runner, there are many basic things about which I’m unsure. Like, actually, seriously, how important is stretching before and/or after a run? Do you all stretch before …
This won’t be a very long post, since I am lacing up my running shoes and about to head out to run. In Delhi’s current 39C summer heat. And why would I do that, you ask? Actually you won’t ask, because most of you are runners. So you get it. …
So, India has finally overtaken the Chinese. Yaay, yippee yaay, do I hear you cry? Please don’t cheer, because all that India has done is win the top spot in the most polluted city in the world stakes, with Delhi (where I live) now being, apparently, more polluted than Beijing. …
There really isn’t actually a lighter side to rubbish at all, and I am in no way trivialising my own recent crusade to play whatever little part one can in the Swachh Bharat campaign…but this classic vignette caught my eye as I was out running this morning. Rubbish skip that …
The annual Walk for Life, organised by the admirable CanSupport here in Delhi is a fixture of the winter calendar, and I don’t know how they do it, but they almost always have lovely weather for it. After a week of miserable fog, today dawned bright and sunny, and we …
