• Crazy just got crazier… My first 12 hr stadium run!

    Yes… finally I am in the stadium run club… Gathered my courage to jump into this madness! And almost did a 100k; 96.5 k officially and 101 k on my Strava… All started with an ultra-marathoner friend of mine mentioned during a Sunday long run that why don’t I try the Bangalore 12 hr run……

  • Ooty Ultra: Lessons from the hills!

    What motivates a runner to go longer and longer? Every runner has his/her goals for running. Some have the qualification to certain races as a target, others look for PBs after PBs in marathons and a good number, and that number is increasing, look to test their limits in all possible ways; running longer and…

  • Homemade protein bars

    Yeah… I have perfected a recipe for this too! Protein powders… we runners can’t live without them… post-run, post-workout, we take them religiously! With my run-work-gym schedule, I generally end up with a number of hydration bottles in my kitchen sink; the pre-, during- & post- with the protein shaker hard to clean among them……

  • Pacing stories: the highs, the lows, the lessons!

    Once the Tata Mumbai marathon (Jan 20) ended I decided that that was last of my racing season! Though I was few minutes away from my BQ, I knew I wouldn’t enjoy my run in New Delhi marathon happening 5 weeks later… So, I decided to accept the invitation for a handful of pacing assignments!…

  • The joy of Trail-running

    Done and dusted another Trail-a-Thon… Our annual trail running extravaganza in the Manger trail of Delhi-NCR… Always a pleasure to run there during the first weekend of Feb when it’s cold and foggy and we can go as long as we want… This was my 3rd Trail-a-Thon… I have done 28km in the past two…

  • Race Report: Tata Mumbai Marathon

    First race of 2019 and it ended with a new Marathon PB… Race day: January 20 Place: Mumbai I love running in Mumbai… Not just because Mumbai marathon is one among the IAAF road races, but also because it challenges you as a runner and also the local support is the best in country… Mumbaikars…

  • 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…

  • My thoughts on dieting…

    With the fitness bug hitting everyone, everyone around is a nutritionist… I get nutrition advice every other day and my timeline is flooded with wanna-be nutritionists’ ‘daily tips’… A number of my runner buddies are on Keto!!! Recently I uploaded on Instagram a photo of my Christmas cake ingredients and I was advised to replace…

  • Marathon Pacing Debut!

    Date: December 2, 2018 Event: Millennium City Marathon, Gurgaon And there takes off my Marathon pacing career… Even though I have been running for 4 years now, I never had many chances to give back to the running community by pacing events. So, when the organizers of MCM were looking for a full marathon pacer…

  • My first Ultra

    Late post! A really late post! So, I am finally an ultra runner now! Graduation ceremony was at the beautiful coffee estate in Belawara, located at the South Karnataka end of the beautiful Western Ghats! Date: October 13, 2018! I was running 50k… Thought would take baby steps towards ultra running! I had no target…