Bright and early this slightly-chilly December morning, I met up with Doc (our coach) and 2 of my running girls for a nice slow-ish run around Panscheel Park. Since Sonam, Sameeksha and the group Auntie (c’est moi) are running the Mumbai Marathon in – gulp – less than 40 days***, …
Well, if the venerable “Times of India” is to be believed, that is. And I quote : “The half marathon, covering a distance of about 21km (fair enough, it’s actually 21.097. But it doesn’t take much to verify your facts these days. Google it, mister…) started at 7.30 (no, it …
And so, after many early mornings spent pounding the streets of Delhi, today I ran the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon in a good time (clipped 4 minutes from my previous HM). A fabulously well organised event. Not as crowded as I had feared – I reckon we were hundreds in each …
Yes, I know, talk about a self-evident truth. Obviously if you run, you go in a direction, I can hear you all muttering. But what I want to share with you tonight, before I toddle off to bed nice and early, so I can be ready for the half-marathon tomorrow, …
I know, I know, ANOTHER post about the joys of running in Delhi. But hey, just bear with me for one more week, and then the half marathon will be over, and normal service will be resumed…whatever that may be. Yesterday I went to collect my bib for next Sunday’s …
5 of us met up in the dark this morning to run. As one does on a slightly chilly Sunday. With the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon exactly 2 weeks away, the plan is to do a long run this Sunday and next, and then, after that the rest is up …
Before I tell you how I answered that question, let me get something off my chest. 2 weeks ago, I lay the blame at the door of the army for my poor running times, thanks to all the fabulosity going on at India Gate, all of which inevitably slows me down to …
A full month earlier than scheduled, theoretically totally under-prepared, but buoyed up my the companionship of my fab running girls, I ran my first ever half marathon this morning. And if you ever doubted the existence of a runner’s high…well, trust me, it exists. Totally. Let me give you the …
I read an article in the Huffington Post recently about runners obsessively sharing all the joys and the highs and the lows and the statistics of their running, so enthused and happy-hormone-d out are they. So I shall cunningly try and disguise all the running-y news in this post with …
…for my consistently lousy running times. Seriously, it’s all their fault. Every day I try and run to India Gate, simply because it is the most fantastic place to run to (ooh, ugly sentence construction there, Christine) but ne’er a day goes past when I don’t stop and dawdle at …
