For a non-American like me, Thanksgiving is the quintessential American celebration. It evokes images of happy families sitting round a table, eating turkey & pecan pie. All rather Norman Rockwell-esque, in the nicest possible way. The only time I have ever been to a Thanksgiving dinner was here in New …
I have found my role model for the next 20 years 🙂 Meet the ab fab 86 year old Ginette Bedard, who will run the New York City Marathon today. Ms Bedard only started running at 69, knocking my start date into a cocked hat. She is hilarious! I laughed …
In the 6 years since I started running, from absolute zero, I have clocked quite a lot of miles. I’ve had some great runs. Some not so great runs. Some eventful runs. Lots of OK-but-nothing special runs. And then there’re some runs which stay in the mind and the heart …
My running mate Kapil Tuli (who is also a super artist, by the way) wrote SUCH an interesting Facebook post this morning, and it certainly got me thinking. With Kapil’s permission, I am sharing his thoughts here, since he makes some very valid points. And I’d love to hear your …
What kind of obsessive person have I become? What has happened to me? Picture the scene. Hubby is away on a business trip, meaning that my pre-dawn alarm won’t elicit the usual grumbles. I ate dinner unfashionably early, & went to bed really, really early (home alone, remember? 😛 ) …
No no, it’s a thing. Marathon golfing has apparently been around for over 140 years. Who knew? I read a fascinating article online, in which we learn: “What has been called “Marathon Golf” is the art of playing as many rounds or holes as possible in a certain amount of …
My resolutely non-running hubby sent me a link to an article in The Economist. It makes fascinating but quite bizarre reading. Apparently there is an extraordinarily high percentage of cheating in the Mexico City marathon. So much so, that there is a delightful expression for the fake runners of this …
My running friend, the lovely young Shikha Dadwal has just celebrated an anniversary. No, not her wedding anniversary, but her running anniversary. She has written a wonderful tribute to running, a vital part of our lives, and yet one that sometimes we love to hate 😛 “August is special. It …
You know how people tell you not to worry about the numbers when you run? All those exhortations to “just run, ignore the time, ignore the distance, just run for the love of it”…you know the kind of thing. All very admirable. But then you have a number like this, …
Runners are strange people, I tell ya’ 😛 Firstly, they get up at dawn and run. And then, as if that in itself isn’t strange enough, they also decide to run for a cause. And then they do it day after day after day. And they do it in the …
