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 …
So there was I, bright and early this morning, pounding the Delhi streets in my brand new running shoes (& feeling ridiculously happy because I have new shoes…) and wearing my brand new Fitbit (& feeling ridiculously happy etc etc) running along the final stretch of Shahjahan Road – always …
Last week a group of 6 of us went to Tadoba National Park in Maharashtra, and it was totally brilliant. Unbelievable tiger sightings. I will put up specific blog posts on the park anon. The park is closed on Tuesdays, which is the day we arrived, so after flying Delhi …
I went for a run a few days ago in my local Biodiversity Park, in what passes for an upmarket part of Delhi. I have recently discovered this park and have blogged about it earlier, but my latest run was a mixed bag of emotions. Delight to be running, as …
The annual Walk for Life, organised by the admirable CanSupport here in Delhi is a fixture of the winter calendar, and I don’t know how they do it, but they almost always have lovely weather for it. After a week of miserable fog, today dawned bright and sunny, and we …
We spent 2 wonderful days over new year with our very dear (and – please don’t get me wrong here, my dears – very old) friends Vineeta and Anish Trivedi, who are living the Bombay dream. By not living there, basically, and living instead in the beautiful countryside in Alibaug, …
I had often wondered, in my pre-running days, how on earth pounding along a street could be described as fun. Now I know better. When they call something a “fun run”, what they are actually talking about is this: Or this : Or better still, this : This morning we …
As the French might well have said during the Revolution – “Aux barricades!” Here in foggy chilly Delhi, we have our own unfolding drama about barricades, which is a little too long (& off topic) to go into here, but in a nutshell… …because the Americans strip-searched an Indian diplomat …
There is nothing quite like taking up a new (healthy) activity to galvanise one’s energy and enthusiasm levels. And that would be? Oh, my latest obsessively favourite thing to do in Delhi. Which is, quite simply, to run. I am enjoying it so much so that I am starting a new …
