We spent 2 wonderful days over new year with our very dear (and – please don’t get me wrong here, my dears – very old) friends Vineeta and Anish Trivedi, who are living the Bombay dream. By not living there, basically, and living instead in the beautiful countryside in Alibaug, …
I haven’t been to the Aravali Bio-diversity in Gurgaon since last summer, when I used to train there with a friend in the baking summer heat for our Mentok Kangri climb. Fast forward to a horrid grey, cold, damp, January morning when I found myself back there with my running …
Last weekend, driving up from Karwa, we spent a night in Pune with cousins whom we haven’t seen for a while, and we had a brilliant catch up. After so many hours in a car, I needed my running fix, so on a quiet, warm Sunday morning I went out …
So much for my New Year resolution of trying to run every day. It lasted pretty much for the first week of the year, then all the traveling hither and thither seriously messed things up. What I did manage to do, however, despite 2 weddings and way, way too much …
I had often wondered, in my pre-running days, how on earth pounding along a street could be described as fun. Now I know better. When they call something a “fun run”, what they are actually talking about is this: Or this : Or better still, this : This morning we …
As the French might well have said during the Revolution – “Aux barricades!” Here in foggy chilly Delhi, we have our own unfolding drama about barricades, which is a little too long (& off topic) to go into here, but in a nutshell… …because the Americans strip-searched an Indian diplomat …
There is nothing quite like taking up a new (healthy) activity to galvanise one’s energy and enthusiasm levels. And that would be? Oh, my latest obsessively favourite thing to do in Delhi. Which is, quite simply, to run. I am enjoying it so much so that I am starting a new …
And another item on the bucket list gets ticked, though whether or not a mere 6km segment of a half marathon counts is a moot point. But moot or not, today was great fun. Not great running but great fun, and we always knew that would be the case. When …
Sunday, the day after tomorrow, it is the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon and I will be part of it. And it’s all hugely exciting. For the last – what? – 3 months I have been part of a programme called Couch – 6km, intended to get non-runners running. Which is …
