It’s Thursday. The half marathon was on Sunday. The dust has settled. The results are out, the medals proudly flaunted on social media. We’ve all done at least one recovery run. The euphoria is still there, for sure. But I think emotions have calmed down enough by now, for a …
Went to collect my bib today for Sunday’s Airtel Delhi half marathon, and was interviewed by a charming young man called Calvin. Here’s my two pennyworth on running in this flagship race 🙂 ‪Like many of us, running along side the India Gate is an uplifting experience for Christine Pemberton! …
Today the blog is being hosted by a remarkable young lady called Gayatri Mathur who was part of our group in Leh, who trained quietly and seriously with no fuss, and then – quick drumroll – coolly placed first in the open category. First, people! How fantastic is that? Without …
Gotta love a guest post that starts with “Any idiot can run but you need a special kind of idiot to run a marathon” which is what this one did 😛 Today another of my ASICS Running Club mates, R K Bahuguna, takes over as our guest blogger, sharing his …
Today’s Ladakh Marathon story is from a relatively new member of our ASICS Running Club, the irrepressible Anyuta Dhir. We Q&A-ed with Anyuta a couple of weeks ago, and that blog post was every bit as exuberant as this one is 🙂 Anyuta’s telling of her experience of last Sunday’s …
Gosh. This time last week we hadn’t even run the Ladakh Marathon. We were all carbo-loading like crazy and turning in early, the night before the big race! Fast forward a week, and we’re all back home – be it Delhi for most of us, or London for my sister …
The other day, I shared with you some of my own feelings about the Ladakh Marathon. I decided I’d also ask some of my running mates who were in Ladakh with me last week, to share their personal experiences of running in the country’s highest marathon. Although I get the …
Yesterday, high up in the Indian Himalayas, the Ladakh Marathon took place. Leh, the capital of Ladakh, is at 3,500 metres altitude so the whole focus of this race (well for me, at least) was all about acclimatising for the reduced oxygen levels. I’d originally signed up to run a …
No, seriously, I mean it. Here I am, now officially running 2 race countdowns, with all the stress and drama and training and work involved in running 2 half marathons in as many months. September 9th will see me gasping for air, as I run the Ladakh Marathon, high in …
Here you go. My running story of the day 🙂 Here’s Stormy, an Australian stray who has just run the Pipeline Marathon in a very respectable 2 and a half hours and won a medal, having crossed though all the checkpoints. I absolutely adore stories like this. Well, who doesn’t? …
