Category: Musings
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When you miss a morning run!
I generally don’t like missing morning runs! Runs should be in the morning when you are not fatigued and it helps kickstart the day in style. But when I have a sleepless night, like yesterday (thanks to the work stress), my brain forces the body to laziness mode of ‘you deserve more sleep; you can…
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New Year, Just Old Me
Hello, 2023! I was not ready for you. But here you are! 2022 has been one of a kind year for me. It was supposed to be normalizing the new normal. Instead, I got truckloads of normal! Too much travel, too many events, too many activities! By December 31, 10pm I was exhausted to the…
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Another Delhi Half Marathon, Another ‘Easy’ Effort!
So, the Delhi Half Marathon is back in town. The history ADHM is back again with a new sponsor making it VDHM. Old wine in new bottle and doesn’t make much difference anyway. And doesn’t make much difference to me either. For the 5th year in a row (3rd attempt skipping two years of pandemic),…
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Bitten by the writing bug – after the pandemic break
Two years of global pandemic and many procrastinations later here I am again. Last I wrote something here was right before the world got shut down thanks to the Coronavirus. While people baked bread and grew a garden and published their daily lives on social media, while I did them all, I stayed away from…
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24 hr stadium run: 18 hrs of running + 6 hrs of drama!
Disclaimer: If this inspires you to run a 24hr stadium, I am not responsible for whatever happens to you or the pain you will have to endure. (FYI, I was an idiot to take up this challenge.) The cardinal rules of running in races:Rule #1: Never race if you are not physically and mentally fit…
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Goodbye 2019… Hello 2020!
Here we go! Curtains down for 2019… A crazy year for me… From the ups to the downs to the ups and then down again; the year gave me mixed emotions and trained me to be an ultramarathoner! 4700 km in 2019! Even I was surprised… Looking at the highs; Mumbai was good to me,…
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It’s September… Time for Another Runcation…
It’s September! My international marathon and ‘runcation’ time… Landed in Sydney this year for Sydney marathon… Though I am not expecting a PR or anything (too many twists and turns), I am hoping for a good run! The weather will be great and I have a good amount of training under my belt! As usual,…
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2018! What an year of running!
2018 was my best year yet in running! It was the year of my first sub-4 full marathon (followed by two more of the same) and my first ultra marathon! I had at least one activity everyday throughout the year; running or walking (I walk at least 2km on my rest days) making it a…
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My 2018 reading list
Already on the first weekend of 2018, and I have a reading list for 2018. Every year I take up a reading challenge which includes one book series and few other books. ‘Few’ maybe 8 to 10 books. This year, I thought I’d change up the challenge a bit, making it a real ‘challenge’. So,…
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Tomorrow….
Everybody has a reason to look forward to tomorrow… a person or persons or things waiting may be… Everybody has a reason to believe today will be outlived tomorrow… a plan may be… Everybody has hope…. people have hope…. their lives are built on hope that tomorrow comes with a new life… a better life….…
