Category: training
-
Kicking some motivation in at 5am!
That’s me some days! Yes, I am a very passionate runner and I love running. I also love the process of learning and growing and building up for a big race! When I am in a training block, I am always looking to check that off the calendar in green and move to the next…
-
The wait for PB continues!
It is just a handful weeks to New Delhi Marathon and the training is satisfactory so far! Just to test the fitness and also with a selfish desire to break my 5+ year old personal best in half marathon, I decided to run a local race here in Gurgaon last Sunday (Jan 8)! Many people…
-
A 10km PR after 5 years: Finally breaking stubborn barriers!
Yes, finally I did it. 10km PR after almost 5 years! It was not a race, but a temp training run. I was in the industrial city of Kharagpur for work and found a wonderful stretch of flat road for my morning run. With a tempo run scheduled for the week, I went all out…
-
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),…
-
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,…
-
Waiting for twilight!
Clicked this pic in the morning when I was waiting for a bit of light for my run @ my hometown in Kerala! It’s going to be winter soon! With the sunrise and twilight delayed, the morning runs are getting delayed too… Change of season calls for new training plans! I have to tweak my…
-
100 days of running 2018
Yes… done with that too… With me running every day since last year’s ‘100 days of running’, completing the 2018 edition was not difficult at all… Ran over 1250 km in over 142 hours in those 100 days! The most satisfying part of the whole thing is the Delhi summer couldn’t stop me. The weather…
Eat, Run, Live, Sleep, Repeat 