Tag: delhi

  • Delhi Half Marathon – Race Report

    Delhi’s biggest running event was finally back after 2 years of pandemic break. It arrived in all new form – new sponsor, new colours, new logo and new slogan! As the most sought after among the short distances, races in India, we expected huge crowds and excitement. But, I found the whole thing a bit…

  • 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!

    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,…

  • 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…

  • ADHM… My YAY moment of the year!

      It was that time of the year in Delhi. Post-Diwali smog and pollution debates and then came along ADHM… bearing the brunt of the ‘concerned’ health professionals… After days and weeks of uncertainty, it did happen! 2017, to me, was the year of Full Marathons. I have been training for it since February with…

  • Another year, Another ADHM done…

    Ever since I started taking long distance running seriously and ever since I started getting to know the running groups in Delhi, the one thing i noticed was that everyone seemed looking forward to, at any time of the year, yes, the tAirtel Delhi Half Marathon or ADHM… and the count down to the event……