Tag: delhi

  • Racing someone up the hill on a random day!

    Will you race someone during your morning training runs? This is not a nice thing to do I know; but I happened to pass someone during my morning run that has resulted in a race uphill!! I should say I was completely not at fault here! I passed someone who may be felt like passed…

  • When you miss a morning run!

    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…

  • The wait for PB continues!

    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…

  • Running in Winters

    Running in Winters

    Winter is here in full glory in Delhi and for me it’s the frozen hands time! As someone with arthritis, I hate this season. I start wearing gloves for running from early December and when it comes to 3 degree C weather in January, my regular running gloves seem inefficient and I end up with…

  • Winter is here!

  • 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…