I have my lovely running friend Kathakoli Dasgupta to thank for yet another fab, chatty guest post. Katha and Dave moved from Delhi to the UK a few years ago, and you’ll find a reference to running here in Delhi in this lovely post 🙂 Enjoy! And now over to …
…as mine did this morning. Totally pear-shaped. As in planning to run 40k, but calling it quits at 11k. If that’s not pear-shaped, God knows what is. Even though I hate the cold, Delhi’s abrupt transition from chilly 2 weeks ago to 40C is absolutely brutal. So the only solution …
This is SUCH a lovely guest post from my running friend Rashi Bhargava. Rashi has been a cyber-mate for well over a year, as we trained online together, thanks to the pandemic. We finally met up for a quick run on Women’s Day but this post, describing her first ever …
…though you could be mistaken for thinking it was Japan, in cherry blossom time! How gorgeous is this? By the way, for those of you who are not familiar with India, Bhimtal is in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. These smashing photos are from my friend Bala, who moved from …
Especially running friends you haven’t actually met. Like the lovely, chatty Myriam Sleeckx, a Belgian friend of a friend, who has been a guest here in this blog before. She just emailed me about her recent running adventures. Myriam’s email is hilarious, and full of fun and running happiness, as …
Now THIS is a seriously classy way to celebrate your 42nd birthday…coolly run your first 42.195 km and become a birthday marathoner! My cyber running mate Saurabh Nigam just ran his first ever marathon, on his 42nd birthday today, without any fuss or fanfare, less than 9 months after recovering …
Disclosure time. I used to hate the whole notion of going to the gym (or “gymming” as it is delightfully referred to here in India). All those machines. All that loud music. All those mirrors. All those rows of people grimly exercising. So for years I didn’t go to a …
Right, so here’s the thing. This morning I’d planned to run AT LEAST 25km – even announced as much on my running group’s weekly zoom chat. But what’s that expression…”the best laid plans” etc etc…my left knee started hurting, and so the planned 25km became the slowest 16km in the …
My running mate Bala, who sensibly left The Big Smoke and moved to the hills, irritated the HECK out of me this morning by sending me a photo taken on his run today. Now don’t get me wrong – the act of spontaneously sending me a photo is lovely and …
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 …
