It’s almost a month since I ran my first non ultra in La Ultra. If this sounds contradictory, and for those of you who haven’t yet read my earlier blog about this amazing high altitude race, here you go – here’s the link. Basically, in a race called La Ultra, …
It’s a musing kinda evening. It’s grey & a bit chilly & looking as though it might rain. Here in Delhi (where I live), Covid cases are rising, and so in addition to our already-existing night curfew, we are also heading into a weekend of curfew. Meaning 2 days of …
Chetan Sehgal, friend, marathoner, and part of the core team at one of India’s toughest races, La Ultra, was out trail running in the countryside just outside Delhi this morning. Will you just have a dekko at his photos… I asked Chetan where he had been trail running and he …
Happy New Year to you and yours, and here’s hoping that 2022 is a better year than 2021…admittedly, 2021 set the bar very low, so we can but hope. I had some major health issues in 2021 (not Covid) but throughout it all I kept walking, and running, whenever I …
It’s Boxing day today, and so the Christmas spirit is still very much on show, right? Meaning I must be good and charitable and kind and empathetic, right? Yes. Indeed I must. So when my cyber-friend Saurabh sends me utterly envy-making, I mean lovely, photos of his runs in Goa, …
Today, Christmas Day, we are Q&A-ing with another cyber-running pal, Susan John. Let me just say, while I think about it, that I can’t wait for some semblance of normality to return so that all my lovely cyber-friends become real-life friends – though to be fair Susan lives in south …
Today we are Q&A-ing with Divya Kapoor, who you might remember, just a few days ago, shared some lovely photos from her runs along the banks of the Narmada. Her answers to the questions put to her are amazing, and I loved reading them 🙂 Q) Why do you run? …
Today we are Q&A-ing with yet another of my cyber running pals, Gursimran Kaur. Since we are both Delhi based, and train not only with the same running coach but also the same fitness coach (as it so happens) in the old normal, we’d’ve met up. But in this wretched …
Today’s Q&A is with yet another cyber-running-pal, Mumbai-based Swati Baxi. Now Swati only started running quite recently, but is clearly very focused and already sounds pretty passionate about her running 🙂 Here we go: Q) Why do you run? A) I run to become myself. I run to find sanity. …
This morning I headed off to run in Nehru Park, trotting slowly round as is my wont Suddenly I recognise 2 people approaching on the track – the brother & sister duo of Saurabh & Prachi Garg, last seen…well…in those far-off 2 year old BC days (before Covid, obvs). We …
