Category: Rain

  • Rain, Run and Falling Sick: A Monsoon Story

    Here is me complaining more about the rainy season! In Delhi we had a hard Summer with boiling heat in May/June and ultimate humidity in July/August. When we first hard rains in August, some of us were thrilled. Finally an end to humidity… but no! The suffering continued with unpredictable weather and the humidity levels…

  • Getting out of the house on a hot, humid morning is a win!

    The rains in Delhi never seems to end. With occasional rain and heat and humid rest of the time, the weather is craziest ever. Ever since the summer started I have been planning to get up at 4, start run at 5 and later relax. But with this humidity it doesn’t matter if i run…

  • That PB feeling

    That PB feeling

    I took a break from ultra and trail marathons 2 years back to focus on leg speed. The many races and the injuries and few DNFs were demotivating factors along with the fact that I am slowing down! So I have been working with a coach to improve on my marathon timing – for me…

  • Dealing with Monsoon and Running

    Dealing with Monsoon and Running

    It’s rainy season in India and rain brings lot of positivity (unless it is flooding). When you are living in a city like Delhi where temperature can go over 40 degrees (C), the small window of monsoon seems like heaven. But… there is a but… Rains and runs don’t go so well actually. It’s good…

  • Bit of rain, a good book and a truckload of ideas for writing…

    Summer almost said goodbye… Much awaited monsoon finally giving us occasional appearances… The temperature has come down… there is always a wind or breeze around… What more I can ask for in a place like Delhi/NCR… The weather was perfect again today…. Drizzles in the morning while jogging… Some harmless clouds were around all day……

  • Jogged in rain…

    It was 7 am and still dark… I wondered if the clock was showing wrong time…  Got out putting on my run gear only to be in cool drizzle… The condition of roads in a rain was quite bad… so i headed to the park where only a handful of people were walking/jogging… most people do…

  • Raindrops on my window…

    Summer has been hard… It was a killer… crushing spirits, destroying peace… it was hell… Even in August, it feels like May… Survival in Delhi depends on your ability to survive summer which covers 75% of the days in an year…. It was Thursday…. Back in Delhi after a short ‘vacation’, expecting to be fried…